We held Color Workshops in three places in the region: the first one was in Lago Ranco, within the framework of the Winter Design Fair, where we assembled color palettes based on the collection of plant elements and their chromatic survey. The second was at the Rural School “Colonia Paillaco”, in the Commune of San José de la Mariquina, where we collected vegetable and mineral objects (stones) in the schoolyard. Then, the children named the color of each object collected with the logic of the project: first the color, then the name of the object and finally the place where it was collected. At the end, they did a color survey with samples of the Ceresita chart. The third workshop was held in Valdivia and was aimed at academics and students of the Universidad Austral de Chile, where the color of the environmental context was explored, based on visual comparison with color charts.

In November we held the workshop “Los Ríos en Colores” in the auditorium of the School of Architecture of the UACh. The participants, after the presentation of the Fondart project, went out to measure chromatic atmospheres around the campus with a gray cardboard frame and a color chart. They also brought samples of plant material to the room, which we then took samples with pieces of color charts and gave them names. It was a short, introductory workshop, where there was experience, we talked and clarified some terms, but surely what remains is to continue knowing and learning about the colors of our region.

In September we carried out the workshop “Los Ríos en Colores” at the Rural School “Colonia Paillaco” in San José de la Mariquina. The children behaved wonderfully, they looked for natural elements in the school yard, we measured them by visual comparison with the Ceresita chart and baptized them with local names, how could it not be better for a “Westerly Tan” to be called “Blanco Digüeñe Colonia Paillaco”? Finally we managed to get a beautiful chart of 28 colors, (some of them “borrowed” from Valdivia), and we said goodbye with some colored blocks and pencils for everyone. We were welcomed by the enthusiastic teacher Denis Muñoz through Karin Müller, from the DAEM of San José.