Os sentires do Monte and Self-Protection Plan

Tierra común, concomitancia mediated by Natalia Balseiro, was born with the aim of developing a mediation that helps the community members of Montes do Couso to fulfil their wishes and needs through an artistic proposal. The community members of the Couso Mountains commissioned the artist Asunción Molinos Gordo to create a work that would allow them to continue generating links with the ecosystem of their mountain, especially with a young public that they were interested in attracting in order to address the issue of intergenerational change.

In response, Molinos Gordo devised, on the one hand, a Self-Protection Plan and, on the other hand, a ritual called "The Ritual for the Protection of the Environment". Os sentires do Monte, which celebrated its first edition at the inauguration of the project, which took place in October 2024. The Fiesta Protocol ensures that the ritual Os sentires do Monte can be replicated in new editions, remaining open to the changes experienced by the bush community. In this way, it allows the festival to become a living tradition, capable of evolving and mutating over time.

For its part, the Self-Protection Plan not only seeks to protect Monte de Couso, but also proposes a replicable model for other communities fighting for the sovereignty of their territories and the preservation of their ecosystems.

Consult the complete Self-Protection Plan here in Gallego or in English.

See the full document here at Gallego.

Common land is part of Art Living Lab for Sustainability, a Creative Europe-funded programme to facilitate innovation ecosystems and obtain nature-based artistic solutions in France, Belgium and Spain.