Observatorio critico is a network of social cultural projects working in Cuba in the context of critic of daily life. The project, which is also entitled itself as Red protagonica, is constructed by the participation of critics, scholars, professors, artists, cultural organizers, communitarian activists which focus their activity on the development of what they call “libertarian and popular contents” for Cuban society.

The activity of the Observatorio are then finalized to the facilitation, the documentation and the connection of very specific projects in different communities: projects such as El trenicto, a communitarian and self managed kinder garden, or el Proyecto Guardabosque which discusses the possibilities of develop self sustained agricultural communities and systems in the island.

The use of video is for Laboratorio Critico a pure tool of documentation and distribution of contents of the several projects which the network represents.

http://observatorio-critico.blogspot.com/