Word: cartonera
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Inspired by the cartonera model, the Paper Picker Press has run educational workshops encouraging people to engage with literature and take ownership over it since 2007. At 2 p.m. on Friday in CGIS, the Press will run a book-making workshop exposing attendees to the revolutionary idea that hatched this successful social and economic project...
...city survived was that everybody became creative,” Cultural Agents Initiative Director and Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Doris Sommer said. “The economy was replaced by barter. People cooked together, played music together.” Barilaro began his project, Eloisa Cartonera, in Buenos Aires in 2003 by combining his artistic talent, the works of leading South American authors, and cardboard collected by garbage pickers. From these raw materials, he produced a series of uniquely decorated novels. The garbage pickers were also hired to decorate the covers, as one of Barilaro?...