250 youngsters from all around the world with some kind of relation to art and architecture will gather in Covarrubias, Burgos, a medieval village of 650 inhabitants. There, they will debate, work and exchange experiences, in a context of analysis and recovery of rural areas, establishing a balance between academic, practical, cultural and social.
IFAC2013 is an initiative started by the non-profit association “Movimiento a la Autosuficiencia” (Self-Sufficiency Movement), whose aim is to:
-Support avant-garde artistic and technological creations.
-Reverse aggressive over-consumption tendencies.
-Spread and encourage self-sufficient practices.
-Experience alternative building methods.
-Exploring and research of ways towards self-sufficiency.
IFAC2013 has “Self-sufficient Rural Future” as its main theme. Its focuses on the rural condition within the framework of the event and being in pursuit of discussion and reflection on the role of contemporary rural environment, its decline in the last half-century exodus and the possibility of a self-sufficient future social model consideration, taking into account the current technological conditions.
