Viento Tejido | woven-wind

El Viento Tejido

Project Beginnings

This international project began with the help of the organization SERES, a non profit focused on engaging, education, and empowering people to become leaders of their own sustainable change. Six Woven Wind members travelled to Guatemala in March 2014 to participate in a Collaborative Laboratory (CoLab). Over the course of the CoLab, our members worked with youth leaders from El Salvador and Guatemala in order to co-create goals and visions for this project and to build stong relationships with one another. There were five representatives from Guatemala and five from El Salvador. Together, the sixteen attendees of the CoLab participated in team building activites and idea-sharing discussions to set up a mission and objctive for the collaboration.

Project Objective

To create a culture of leadership to improve the environment using technology and education.

CoLab Outcomes

Woven Wind will continue collaborating and communicating with our team members in Guatemala and El Salvador in order to achieve our mutual objective. The three main focuses of this collaboration are:

Team Development
*We will all work in small groups to create videos or brochures for the rest of the team, about a topic in which they are not too comfortable. For example, the Michigan Crew can create videos about technical details of wind turbines, while the Guatemalan Crew can create a brochure about the typical local educational system.
Workshops
*The members of the team will create workshops, activities or prototypes for members of their respective communities to raise awareness about wind energy.
Community Project
*The Michigan Crew will work specifically with one international community at a time to help create a prototype that those leaders can proceed to use for more workshops, etc.