The members of the Dignicraft Film and Art collective shared the conceptual principles they have developed over more than 20 years of experience as observer-participants, exploring their own realities and that of other people to try to understand them.
The workshop was structured in three parts: 1) Conceptual principles, 2) Methodologies and 3) Tools, based on case studies of projects carried out by the collective addressing issues such as the Chicano, Mexican American, and Latinx communities in Southern California; the city of Tijuana and daily life in the US-Mexico border; immigration; traditional crafts; the Purepecha indigenous diaspora; and the periphery of Mexico City and the State of Mexico.
Finally, as part of the workshop the group discussed the details on projects being done by the participating students, exploring any of the concepts and elements of the methodologies/tools that are relevant to their own projects.
