Casa Gallina is a transdisciplinary cultural project whose programming is focused on learnings and actions relating culture, community, and the environment. The project is located in Santa María la Ribera, a neighborhood of Mexico City, where it seeks to facilitate synergies inside the local communities.
Through its platforms, Casa Gallina seeks to promote, inoculate, encourage, and revitalize initiatives and proposals about resilience, the environment, creative models of associations, life styles of responsible consumption, as well as alternative models of social interaction. Casa Gallina also seeks to strengthen local community networks, as well as alliances with initiatives from other areas that share similar interests to establish processes of dialogue, work, and exchange.
Strategies
Numeralia
Since 2019
COMMUNITY REACH




12,469
neighbors actively
participating in programs


An average of
690
monthly visitors to the House
49,000
indirect beneficiaries
(number of inhabitants
of Santa María la Ribera)

24

neighborhood
initiatives
 for the common good



Collaborations with
18 local schools, supporting
the creative and meaningful education
of 8,980 children, and
the work of 454 teachers


Testimony

We live from an adult-centric perspective,
which is the basis for teaching, but here they
have another pedagogical outlook, where the children can
foster their sense of community, that feeling of support,
it generates a space where they feel safe, and where
we can express ourselves as children or as adults

- Jessica Martínez, mother of a child participating in the summer course Life In My Environment, August 2022




EXPANSION
IN TO OTHER
TERRITORIES


Link with 289 community
organizations
and agents
238
allies have expanded
Casa Gallina's work in
137 communities across
21 states




Reaching 37,564 people
in other territories

6

Programs of
Environmental
Education

91 schools
341 teachers
5893 students

In Oaxaca, Campeche,
Guerrero, Mexico City, Puebla
Veracruz and Jalisco
9

community
exhibitions
activated
in 8 states
Mexico City, State
of Mexico, Nayarit, Tabasco,
Quintana Roo, Oaxaca,
Chiapas and Puebla
11

books published
and distributed
nationwide:
  We Are Maize         
Constellations:
A Manual of Tools
for Collective Mapping

Interconnections: Big
and Small Creatures
in the Same World
  Life in My Environment         
  We Make Our River         
  The Distributed Orchard         
Flavors and Knowledge
from the Maize Field

Tracing the Common.
The Territories that Inhabit Us

Recreate. A Compilation of
Educational Strategies

The Sense of the Garden

Breaths: Seven Notes
on Reading Mediation



39%
of the print run
consists of editions in 8
indigenous languages:
    Zapoteco, Maya, Náhuatl, Wixárika,
    Purépecha, Ombeayiüts, Tsotsil
    Tseltal, Mazatec and Totonac



Cartography
Allies
Related initiatives
Allies

Casa Gallina strives to build and strengthen networks of alliances with collectives, individuals, civil society organizations and public or private institutions with whom we share common interests. Collaborative processes are built in different formats and frameworks, which weave networks to share resources, strategies and methodologies.

These different alliances aim to enable processes and actions related to critical narratives, so as to trigger collective experiences on ecology, resilience, community liassons and creativity in daily life.

This network is deepened through the creation of new programs and work formats in co-participation with the agents and organizations with which it collaborates. In search of constant expansion, the network is open to constantly integrate new organizations, groups and institutions that share the interests of creating projects in favor of the common good, culture, community and the environment.