This chapter reflects on the use of Participatory Video (PV) in bottom-up transformational efforts toward sustainability and the pursuit of alternative futures. Focusing on the experience of Casa Pueblo, a community autogestión organization in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, this chapter advocates for community-engaged, context-sensitive, co-created methodologies that embrace multiple ways of knowing and acting. To achieve this, it draws on the Participatory Video Voces desde la Autogestión, an academic project under the initiative Casa Pueblo Universitario. This project is grounded in the lived experiences, everyday actions, and insights of the organization’s members (staff and volunteers) and shaped by local contexts and participants’ prior experiences. The chapter showcases how community autogestión can support both the deconstruction of colonial beliefs and transformations. Furthermore, it demonstrates how filmmaking can serve simultaneously as a method of research and a collective practice of critical reflection and engagement, serving as a decolonial and future-oriented practice. As a result, the chapter presents filmmaking as a tool to co-produce knowledge, engaging both academic and community expertise, positioning the researcher as facilitator rather than only expert. To watch the full video, see: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/items/e56cf12a-adeb-4381-b9a7-a025a52af51b

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Filming Community Autogestión: Insights from a Participatory Video Project

  • Bárbara López-González

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This chapter reflects on the use of Participatory Video (PV) in bottom-up transformational efforts toward sustainability and the pursuit of alternative futures. Focusing on the experience of Casa Pueblo, a community autogestión organization in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, this chapter advocates for community-engaged, context-sensitive, co-created methodologies that embrace multiple ways of knowing and acting. To achieve this, it draws on the Participatory Video Voces desde la Autogestión, an academic project under the initiative Casa Pueblo Universitario. This project is grounded in the lived experiences, everyday actions, and insights of the organization’s members (staff and volunteers) and shaped by local contexts and participants’ prior experiences. The chapter showcases how community autogestión can support both the deconstruction of colonial beliefs and transformations. Furthermore, it demonstrates how filmmaking can serve simultaneously as a method of research and a collective practice of critical reflection and engagement, serving as a decolonial and future-oriented practice. As a result, the chapter presents filmmaking as a tool to co-produce knowledge, engaging both academic and community expertise, positioning the researcher as facilitator rather than only expert. To watch the full video, see: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/items/e56cf12a-adeb-4381-b9a7-a025a52af51b