It's a project from MAL, a curatorial nomadic platform Jose Iglesias Gª-Arenal runs together with some collegues as well as Sala Guirigai (an art center in Los Santos de Maimona, the town in Extremadura where Jose is currently living, now www.guirigai.com). Desertificación cultural (Cultural desertification) is the name the group are using to understand the machinic relationship between ecological transformations and cultural neoliberal politics in the context of what we could call "plantationocene", where the mythical figure of the desert has been (and is still) used to designate territories as "free to be conquer", and to erradiquate cultures and forms of life. During the workshop we will (virtually) meet with artists, researchers and curators who are developing projects and thinking from non urban areas, and we'll made a serie of podcast in collaboration with a local radio to document contemporary resistance practices to metropolis ideology.