El Ensueño is a 15 hectar rural laborary and living space located on Palomino river, one hour walking distance from the Palomino village in the Guajira department of Colombia.
El Ensueño was bought by Intermundos in 2009 and has since been in a process of recuperation and habilitation. Most of its 15 hectares forest was cut down in the 80s to make way for illegal crop cultivation and today what exists is a low jungle habitat of young trees. El Ensueño is today located inside the Kogi indigenous reserve and in front to the Arahuaco indigenous reserve. Our objective is that El Ensueño become a sustainable cultural project and farm as well as an ongoing laboratory for alternative living practices which abide to millenary traditions as well as embracing and developing sustainable technologies. We started our residency and volunteer program during 2013 and will be hosting our first seminars in 2014.
In 2010, the first kioske “El Jaguar” was constructed, but it was not until 2013 that we developed the infrastructure necessary to host guests; constructing two more kiosks; “El Zaino” and ” El Colibri”, installing running water and solar energy, gas stoves and other comforts. Also during 2013 Felipe Rague from Ereciclaje, expert and pioneer in Colombia working with recycling and perma-culture lived and worked in El Ensueño. During his stay he designed and constructed of a series of berms which serve as a water catching and retaining system which makes possible cultivation on the lower part of our land which otherwise was a sand hill. For more information about ereciclaje:
www.ereciclaje.com
Also in 2013, through a convention with the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, we hosted our first resident artist Viviana Gamboa and two interns worked on site for three months setting up our ceramics workshop and teaching a series of workshops to the community.
