SIMPARCH
Process
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (process).
Simparch during their research at the community Fundación Esperanza, as part of their project Dirty Water Initiative, inspired by homemade water treatmentplants.
Proposal
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (proposal).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (proposal).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (proposal).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (proposal).
Marisol's Still, Cynthia Hooper, inSite_05 (proposal).
Graciella's Still, Cynthia Hooper, inSite_05 (proposal).
Conjectural Drawing: Distillator, Cynthia Hooper, inSite_05 (proposal).
Conjectural Drawing: Bucket Fountain , Cynthia Hooper, inSite_05 (proposal).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (proposal).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (proposal).
SIMPARCH, Dirty Water Initiative, inSite_05 (proposal).
Related Material
The US art collective SIMPARCH began their investigative process by working with one of Tijuana’s informal communities in collaboration with the Fundación Esperanza. They became especially interested in the theme of water, in particular the idea of purifying water using solar-based water distillation. The project, entitled Dirty Water Initiative, had two phases: the first stage was to construct and install a small purification plant as a “public fountain” sited in the pedestrian walkway from San Ysidro to Tijuana at the US-Mexico port of entry; the second stage involved the donation of the distillation facility to an informal community in Tijuana. The deployment of these solar distillers, sealed in glass, more than an aesthetic effect at the urban scale, seeks to stimulate reflection about the problem of water, and the importance of researching ecological solutions that could achieve a direct impact at the community level within poor, informal settlements.
Curators: Osvaldo Sánchez and Tania Ragasol
Venues: San Ysidro and Tijuana
Acknowledgments
Participating communities
Fundación Esperanza
La Morita
Ejido Lázaro Cárdenas
Chilpancingo
inSite production
Daniel Martínez
Márgara de León
Joy Decena
Zlatan Vukosavljevic
Esmeralda Ceballos
Individuals acknowledgments
Jorge Carrillo
Teddy Cruz
Marcos Ramírez ERRE
Roberto Espinosa
Simón Orozco
Xiomara Delgado
Yesenia Guadamuz
Miguel Ángel Méndez
Josefina Pataky
Graciela Lara
María Soledad Dávalos
Nicolasa Lucero
Olivia Lucero
Marcel Tam
Maraiah Hill
Eduardo Savala
Heidi Sánchez
Edmundo Romo
Jorge L. Gabayet
Cynthia Hooper
Organizations
Fundación Esperanza de México, A.C.
Ecoparque
Laboratorio Inapramex
Cristalum
Sponsors
The United States Embassy in Mexico City