Bogotá Boticaria

Abstract

This project aims to account for the fertility of the territory of the Bogotá highlands, in terms of biodiversity and its proliferation in the environment, and how this is possible in the middle of a city completely full of buildings. In Bogotá, more and more urban gardens are taking up space, as an exercise in resistance and encounter with ancestral, peasant and rural agricultural practices that at some point were essential for our ancestors in this same territory, alluding to a need for recovery of this territory as a producer, using ancestral practices in the agricultural framework. Briefly returning to the previous crisis generated by the pandemic and peaks of respiratory diseases that came with it, which are still present coexisting with us today, it was and is necessary to resume production practices, as well as the consumption of medicinal plants. , as an input to treat, alleviate and prevent respiratory diseases while contributing environmentally to the improvement of air quality in Bogotá. This project seeks to start from meetings and talks with people knowledgeable about plants (their reproduction, properties and use), as well as the assembly in addition to the production of urban gardens, green gardens in the Bogotá sector, to disseminate as well as the circulation oral certain ancestral practices on the management of herbs, fruits and others, in order to support the health of the Bogotá community, using art and oral tradition as a tool, voice to voice.