2024-07-16 06:25:00
The grey, catastrophic and hopeless outlook on the future of the environment seems imminent, but Alejandra Cervantes Mascarenodirector of the Papalote Children’s Museumbelieves that there are alternatives that can be offered to the youngest children.
“It is of little use to us to talk about what can be done be tomorrow if we don’t talk about what we can do in the present And in the midst of the effects of global warming that we are all experiencing, it is necessary to address the issue,” Mascareño said in an interview with this media outlet.
Likewise, the official of the interactive museum assured that despite the fact that the sustainability It is a topic that concerns everyone humanityfor children it has great relevance.
“In schools, the issue of environmental care is very present and although it is addressed as a reality, much of the complexity that this implies, It is simplified to address the practical.
“Conscious consumption is important to reflect on and these generations have understood it well, which is why it is common for children to be concerned about what type of products their parents buy and also about issues that they have to do with separating garbage and recycling“, he continued.
For this reason, he assured that delving into these issues didactic ways and that they offer children learning beyond school, can reinforce habits.
“Children are hope and we must see them that way, we must ensure that the planet we are going to leave them can have them as well as their parents.” future generations, show them the things they can do so that we do not continue to deteriorate it,” he added.
INITIATIVE WITH OBJECTIVES
In that sense, the Papalote Children’s Museum presents the temporary exhibition Route 5Rs, which explores through information and interactivity the concepts of Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle and Reintegrate, hence the title.
This initiative is made up of objects that were destined to become garbage and that today serve as educational learning material, such as PET bottles of different sizes, cans, clothing, waste electronics and even cardboard.
“The idea is to show that with those same objects we can do something more useful than throwing them away.” the garbage to contaminate“, the official clarified.
This is how nearly 80 percent of the exhibition’s museography transforms waste into characters and even a musical instrument made of PVC pipes, flip-flops, plastic jugs and a bicycle wheel, which is called Flip-flopmade by the hands of the Garbage Orchestra.
The exhibition seeks to reach as many people as possible, therefore, it will tour other places within the Republic.
“This type of experience should reach as many people as possible and after being in the Papalote Chapultepec Children’s Museumwill go to Cuernavaca, then to Monterrey and for now we are in talks with other interactive museums that are not precisely Papalote so that it can also reach them,” he concluded.
Route 5Rs, It is now at the Papalote Children’s Museum.
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2024-07-16 06:25:00