Columbia
Established in 2012, CASA Colombia has the goal of seeking to coordinate and strengthen efforts of national and regional networks that promote, form, investigate and disseminate sustainable and regenerative lifestyles though projects and events throughout the year. The CASA network organises a yearly network in which more than 400 participants of approximately 300 organizations and communities come together to work on sustainability issues through a co-designed participatory methodology. CASA Colombia is also linked to CASA Continental which connects other sustainability networks around Latin America. Martha Chaves, who is part of the CASA organisational committee, and conducting research into social learning in the network, is also the coordinator of the research group GAIA Sur (Grupo Articulador de Investigación y Acción en Sustentabilidad y Resiliencia – The Articulating Group for Research and Action into Sustainability and Resilience) which will support the research into this case study. The research group GAIA Sur is made up of a network of researchers from different universities around Colombia, and leading organisations in the area of sustainability in Colombia.
Main roles and responsibilities: Case study development, contributing to theoretical and methodological development, and the potential contribution to glocal action projects through Latin American and global networks.
Main roles and responsibilities: Case study development, contributing to theoretical and methodological development, and the potential contribution to glocal action projects through Latin American and global networks.
Martha Chaves
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Martha Chaves is Biologist from the Colombian University Universidad del Valle. She has worked in the field of conservation and sustainability for more than 18 years, first focusing in landscape ecology, followed by community-based conservation, and currently on sustainability networks and social movements in Latin America. Since 2012 she has been researching social and transformative learning processes in a sustainability network at multiple levels (personal, collective and organizational). She uses a variety of interactive and social innovation methods of research such as participatory photography and video, and has engaged in action research with the network, specifically with the objective of creating multi-stakeholder encounters and articulating the diverse actors from civil society, NGOs, traditional and native communities, entrepreneurs and leaders of social movements. She is also co-created a network research group in Colombia, which is supported by researchers from different countries.
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