Montenoso

Montenoso (the land is ours) is a project that was born in Summerlab 2012 in Alg-a Lab, Valadares, Vigo, in which we collaborate as RuralC with other collectives and associations, working in an openly and transparent way, with pads, trellos and regular meetings at Mumble. A project that aims to visualize the MVMC (Lands of Neighbors in Common Ownership) in Galicia. The MVMC in Galicia represent a type of ownership and management of property, that breaks the classic public / private dichotomy. The specifics of these lands is determined by the fact that the property goes to the residents who daily live in that territory. This form of commons affects more than 640,000 hectares, 33% of Galicia.

The objectives of this project are:

- Giving visibility to communal lands and communities that manage them.
- Supporting the (re) appropriation of these lands by the neighbors to guarantee the sustainability of the territories.
- Encouraging community members to be participants in the multifunctionality of lands and its revaluation.
- Learning from their genesis and management mechanisms.

To reach them we are developing three devices:

1) LAR: research space about commons and related topics.

2) Cartography that visualizes each MVMC with its contents.

3) An Intervention program.

During these 10 months we have worked in various groups: internal coordination, funding, LAR, Communication, Design (creation of logos, images, pictograms, ...).

Through the site www.montenoso.net you can follow our publications and see more deeply the project.