CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

This article reflects on approaches to community making, recounting the experience of a group of activists running two workshops in a prison in Argentina, working from a free software and free culture perspective.In Argentina prisons aren´t too different from those in the rest ofthe world. They are places of confinement where the rights of thousands of people are violated by the government day after day. Even official reports describe building, sanitary, and food deficiencies; the use of disciplinary procedures, such as punishment cells; and lack of access to education and medical assistance. Despite this, it is possible to build niches in which detainees resist degradation and suffering in prison, "turning it into adifferent place, managing not only to keep on surviving, but to go onlaughing, loving and making friends". The ways resistance works are not easy to describe or explain, but the broad goal of this articleis to at least try to describe how we attempt to build such niches through community workshops.In this article, we recount the experience of a group of activists in the Las Flores prison, including the authors of this article, where we run a series of workshops for detainees. All workshops focus onone goal: community making.p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 115% }