Devenir Universidad

The Devenir Universidad platform uses art and digital media to gather and share materials generated through the collaborative project. It was conceived by Ursula Biemann as a companion to the Inga-led Indigenous university project (also described as a "pluriversity" or "Iachaiwuasi" by Inga leader Hernando Chindoy Chindoy). The site includes visual and audio elements, ranging from graphic symbols based on chumbe (belt) designs made by Inga women as part of Inga knowledge and storytelling practices, to video archives of collective meetings between collaborators, to audio fragments discussing Inga architecture in the context of the land. The platform also articulates key elements of the project, such as approaching territory as an agent of knowledge, conceiving of collaborative networks as an "organism", and engaging with Inga weaving methodologies to think about questions of labour , knowledge-making, and translation.

In the video above, Hernando Chindoy situates the university in processes of dismantling knowledge practices imposed through violence and enabling other possible encounters, dialogues, and collective community action in Inga territory.