The WRENCH project is conducting community workshops to bring together people, associations, and local institutions to draft “people’s plans” for addressing climate change in relation to cultural heritage.
Narrativas como patrimonio vivo. Cuenca Matanza-Riachuelo – Muestra virtual
Esta muestra nace de un proceso colectivo desarrollado en la cuenca Matanza-Riachuelo. A lo largo de un
año de trabajo, más de cien personas participaron de entrevistas, talleres, encuentros, búsquedas de
archivo e investigaciones situadas que dieron lugar a los distintos núcleos que conforman esta exposición.
Un proceso abierto, en permanente construcción, que continúa sumando voces y experiencias.
¡Lean los carteles de la muestra!
This exhibition emerges from a collective process developed in the Matanza-Riachuelo basin. Over the course of a year of work, more than one hundred people took part in interviews, workshops, gatherings, archival searches, and situated research, which gave rise to the different nuclei that make up this exhibition. It is an open process, in constant construction, that continues to incorporate voices and experiences.
Read the exhibition’s posters!
Montes Veciñais: Memory, Preservation, Reclamation, Commons – Focus Groups July 2026
During the last weeks of July some focus groups were organized with various communities in the area of Vigo and Pontevedra. Mancomunidade do Morrazo (Cangas, Coiro, Moaña, Domaio), Mancomunidade de Vigo (Candéan, Teis) the Comunidade de Tameiga, Salcedo and Xeve, opened their doors to our researchers and recounted their stories.
Histories of reclamation, trials, familiar memories and ecological conflicts drove us into the understanding of the complex reality of montes veciñais, which is always tied to the past, present and future of commoners.
Reshaping Memory and Nature. Commons in the Face of Climate Change – Wrench – OCC! Summer School – Tameiga, Mos, July 15-19th 2026
Through the joint venture of Wrench – Whispers of Time as Narrative of Climate Change, and OCC! – Occupy Climate Change!, the summer school “Reshaping Memory and Nature. Commons in the Face of Climate Change” has taken place in the Comunidade de Montes Veciñais en Man Común de Tameiga, municipality of Mos.
The school has hosted 20 scholars and activist coming from different places and university, with an high degree of participation and commitment.
Activities were deployed with commoners, to delve into memories and into their understanding of commons and commoning processes; With children, participating in the summer camp inside the territory of the community; with school attendants, who gave their perspective on the community and its projects.
The overall objective of the school, which was to produce material needed for the creation of a People’s plan for Galician montes, has been fulfilled with a strong participation from both community and participants of the school.
Voces y miradas de mujeres trabajadoras
Proceso de escucha que Natalia Correa — investigadora del Colectivo WREMAR Buenos Aires y trabajadora del Centro de Salud Nº9 de La Boca — sostuvo con mujeres del barrio.
Process of listening carried out by Natalia Correa — researcher with the WREMAR Buenos Aires Collective and worker at the La Boca Health Center No. 9 — together with women from the neighborhood.
Buenos Aires – June 2026 – Narrativas como patrimonio vivo @ Las Heras – Jornada TAIN
On June 13, the local collective WREMAR (WRENCH Matanza–Riachuelo) coordinates a community workshop (TAIN – Taller Integrador Interdisciplinario) at Instituto Superior de Formación Docente y Técnica N° 44 Escuela de Educación Primaria N° 1, Las Heras. You can read all the details in the documents below.
El 13 de Junio, el colectivo local WREMAR (WRENCH Matanza–Riachuelo) coordina un taller comunitario (TAIN – Taller Integrador Interdisciplinario) en el Instituto Superior de Formación Docente y Técnica N° 44 Escuela de Educación Primaria N° 1, Las Heras. Podés encontrar todos los detalles en los documentos que siguen.
Ragusa – May 2026 – Students at Work on the People’s Plan
On May 29th, third‑year students from the Bachelor’s Degree in Planning and Environmental Sustainability (L21) of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the University of Catania moved through the city of Ragusa to continue the activities related to the People’s Plan. Accompanied by professor Giusy Pappalardo, they began the day with an exploratory walk in Cava Gonfalone, guided by members of the CAI (Club Alpino Italiano), who currently manage the site.
Cava Gonfalone bears witness to the ancient work of the pirriatura — the stone quarrymen who extracted the limestone used to expand the city of Ragusa — along with many other stratified memories. Today, the quarry’s microclimate makes it a space that could function as a climate refuge, thanks to its natural insulation from outside temperatures.
In the afternoon, the university students moved to the classrooms of the Vico–Umberto I–Gagliardi Secondary School, where they presented their preliminary work for the People’s Plan. They engaged in a collective mapping exercise on heritage and climate change, as well as a focus group dedicated to younger generations — a concrete exercise in active listening and imagining the future.
Thanks to Giuseppe Occhipinti, Daniele Criscione, school principal Nunziata Barone, and all the students who enthusiastically contributed to this initiative!
Allariz, Galicia – May 2026 – WRENCH @ VIII Congress of Organización Galega de Comunidades de Montes en Man Común
On May 23rd and 24th, the ORGACCM (Organización Galega de Comunidades de Montes en Man Común) held its VIII congress at the House of Culture in the Municipality of Allariz.
The congress is a quadrennial meeting designed to collectively determine the requests, demands, and main priorities of the ORGACCM in defending the heritage of the Montes against contemporary challenges. These include climate change, legal threats to their existence, and the political undervaluing of their experiences.
In this context, the WRENCH project proposed an activity to assess the relevance of memory and heritage in ensuring the survival and importance of the Montes, both ecologically and socially.
Here, the intervention of PhD candidate Samuele Andreoni of the Wrench Project:
Reclaiming and Reinventing the Commons: Past, Present and Future of Galician Montes Veciñais
Buenos Aires – May 2026 – Narrativas como patrimonio vivo @ Tres Ombúes
En el marco del proyecto WRENCH, el Colectivo WREMAR (WRENCH Matanza–Riachuelo) está desarrollando talleres comunitarios en distintos territorios de la Cuenca Matanza–Riachuelo, con el objetivo de recoger, visibilizar y registrar las narrativas, memorias y percepciones de quienes habitan la cuenca.
Estos espacios funcionan como dispositivos de escucha e instancias de intercambio colectivo para compartir experiencias, reflexiones y propuestas vinculadas con el río, el ambiente y la vida cotidiana en la cuenca. También es posible aportar materiales para una exposición insurgente (desde abajo) que el colectivo WREMAR está organizando.
Aquí se incluyen algunas fotos del taller realizado en el territorio ancestral de memoria indígena, junto a la comunidad multiétnica Tres Ombúes, en el Partido de La Matanza, en el Gran Buenos Aires, el 9 de mayo de 2026
Aquí se puede descargar el programa del día.
Aquí, una contribución video del día
Buenos Aires – Abril 2026 – Narrativas como patrimonio vivo @ Profesorado Pueblos de América, Villa 21-24
Aquí se incluyen algunas fotos del taller realizado en el Profesorado Pueblos de América, en la Villa 21-24 de Buenos Aires, el día 21 de abril de 2026.
Aquí se puede descargar el programa del día.
Aquí se puede descargar la invitación para contribuir a la exposición insurgente (desde abajo).
Aquí, una contribución video del día
Aquí el servicio de Urbana TeVé.
Buenos Aires – Septemeber 2025 – Narrativas como patrimonio vivo @ MUNTREF
Within the framework of the WRENCH project and the programme “Narratives as Living Heritage in the Matanza–Riachuelo Basin,” supported by the Fundació Autònoma Solidària of the UAB, the workshop “Stories of the Basin – Collective Storytelling on Heritage and Climate Change” took place on September 27th, 2025. The workshop invited participants to listen to stories connected to the surroundings of the Matanza–Riachuelo Basin and to map them as a way to reflect on our relationship with the rivers. A special contribution was offered by Amarí Carla Gorbalán, artist and researcher of the Querandí Nation People, who shared a reflection on the ancestral cosmovision of the territory. The workshop is part of the Series of Conversations and Collective Storytelling Workshops at MUNTREF Museo de la Inmigración.
What the Media Said. We featured on SEÑAL UNTREF’s Vamos Viendo streaming programme, where we gave a full interview and shared a dynamic recap, live from the street! It was also an honour to take part in URBANA TEVÉ’s Desde el Barrio programme, recorded in the Padre Carlos Mugica neighbourhood (Villa 31). URBANA TEVÉ is Argentina’s first villero TV channel, operating directly from the Barrio Carlos Mugica. We talked about the project, the workshop, the situation in popular neighbourhoods in relation to water, Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’, and much more. URBANA TEVÉ also joined us at the workshop at MUNTREF, providing both a full recording and a short recap video.
Buenos Aires – Septemeber 2025 – Encuentro con la Comunidad Telomian Condic Pueblo Nación Querandí en el Sitio La Noria de Arqueología y Memoria Querandí
Within the framework of the WRENCH project and the programme “Narratives as Living Heritage in the Matanza–Riachuelo Basin,” supported by the Fundació Autònoma Solidària of the UAB, a gathering was held on 14 September 2025 to listen to the voices of the Telomian Condic Querandí Nation Community. The meeting took place at the La Noria Site of Querandí Archaeology and Memory, a location where a stretch of the old, unchannelled Matanza–Riachuelo River still flows and native tala trees continue to grow. This landscape remains a symbolic and culturally significant place for the Querandí people.
Buenos Aires – Septemeber 2025 – Tres Ombúes
Within the framework of the WRENCH project and the programme “Narratives as Living Heritage in the Matanza–Riachuelo Basin,” supported by the Fundació Autònoma Solidària of the UAB, we met on September 6th, 2025 to listen to the voices of the multi‑ethnic Indigenous communities at the ancestral site of Tres Ombúes, on the banks of the Matanza–Riachuelo River (Partido de La Matanza).
Ragusa – May 2025
On May 24th, a community process was launched in Ragusa to develop a People Plan for caring for cultural heritage in the era of climate change. Building on ongoing research into the impacts of climate change on one of the most iconic symbols of Ragusan identity—the dome of the Cathedral of San Giorgio, a WRENCH pilot site—a group of residents, experts, and representatives of local institutions came together to reflect on the broader territorial heritage. Our aim is to look beyond the single monument and explore how living environments can become more welcoming and more just, despite and beyond the challenges posed by climate change.
Naples – May 2025
On May 3rd, we held the second meeting at the Former Military Hospital in Naples to continue our work for the People’s Plan, exploring questions such as what this space means for the community, how climate change is experienced locally, what consequences it may have on the site and the neighborhood, what actions could help mitigate or adapt the space to climate impacts, and how this place could be used to strengthen community reltionships and CC awareness.
Naples – November 2024
On November 16, the Former Military Hospital in Naples hosted the first WRENCH community workshop, launching a series of locally grounded initiatives designed to trigger public engagement to reflect on—and act upon—the effects of climate change on heritage. More broadly, the workshop created a space to explore the narratives surrounding heritage in its many forms, and to consider ways to improve the living conditions of the communities who carry and transmit those narratives, with particular attention to issues of climate and urban justice. These initiatives will lead to the development of a series of People’s Plans for caring for living heritage in the face of climate change, as outlined in the corresponding WRENCH deliverable.
