With the launch of Rizoma Field School in Colonia, Uruguay, we began to experiment with bottom up social change. Working on hands-on solutions, testing them on the ground, and learning in-context all become critical to the vision of social change.

Taking lessons from Ethnographic field work among subsistence food producers in Chicago, agroecologists in Uruguay, international cohorts of Bioconstruction architects, localists in the United States, and sustainability academics, we began to lay the groundwork of an international network of collaborators working on testing ideas in a decentralized, autonomous and voluntary basis.

The time is now! The Rizoma Foundation is launched with the mission to accelerate multiple already existing bottom up networks, provide a model for decentralized funding structures, and developing experimental alternatives that promote sustainability, freedom, diversity and health.