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What is your name and what is your relation to this project? 0:00:17
In your particular case, what has prepared you to take charge of this project? 0:00:33
Why did you abandon your previous job as a career counselor to join this project? 0:01:37
Where is this project located? 0:02:57
When and how did this project start? 0:04:34
Why did you choose the name “La Troca”? 0:08:08
Can you explain how your participatory process has been so far, and what have you done to ensure the inclusion of all types of people? 0:09:16
How have you organized the decision making within the participatory process? 0:14:23
We’re in Barcelona, and in this city there’s a tradition of working class universities and
athenaeum lay workers, libertarians and revolutionaries that arose throughout the country and that challenged the established order. Would you place this project in that tradition? 0:16:45
Are we in a collective, an association, a cooperative? What legal structure have you chosen for this space and why? 0:19:14
How does the establishment perceive a project like La Troca? 0:21:07
Why do you think the establishment doesn’t embrace this type of project? 0:22:43
We’re in a city which has a “city council for change.” Are these circumstances that favor the inception of this project? 0:24:23
How many people are salaried workers on this project and on who do the salaries of these people depend on? 0:25:35
What does it mean to ‘work’ in this project? 0:26:52
For many collectives and projects (previous and subsequent to the movement), 15M has signified a moment of reorganization, of prevencion, of strengthening, etc.
How is La Troca connected to 15M? 27:48
In a way, it seems like La Troca is supplying the function of a public service. Can you talk about how you perceive this reality? 29:08
Why do you think this type of informal education isn’t promoted in school or in public universities? 0:32:15
When you talk about collective intelligence in La Troca, what are we talking about? 0:33:38
How do you understand the term ‘active retirement’? 0:34:57
And what are you referring to with the terms transversal and basic instrumental competencies? 0:36:55
How do you understand the term ‘the reproductive economy’? 0:38:34
What is the profile of the people who come to La Troca? 0:39:52
Do these people pay for this training? 0:43:06
Is La Troca a political project, and what kind of politics are we talking about? 0:43:41
It seems like participation is an issue still to be resolved. What are some other unresolved matters that you observe in society? 0:44:53
What does it mean for La Troca to grew in non-capitalist terms? 45:54
What have been the challenges and new insights of working for La Troca? 0:46:28
What maintains the energy and hope of the people who work at La Troca? 0:47:56
We at La Troca are a very diverse group of people that, since October 2015, have been working to realize an innovative educational project: set up a community school for lifelong learning in the Sants neighborhoods of Barcelona. That is, establish a school that allows adults and youths to learn how to grow and develop themselves as autonomous individuals who are critical in all areas of life. Source
