This project is driven by
The festival aims to:
- Create a space for collective reflection and meaningful conversations that allow us to move toward an inclusive economy.
- Raise awareness about the value of diversity and the inclusion of all aspects of nature, including human nature, in various contexts.
- Foster inclusion through art, which serves as a vehicle for dialogue and a bridge between realities.
- Inspire collective and personal action grounded in awareness, with the conviction that everyone has the potential to be an agent of change.
An invitation to redesign the way we live together.
The Festival Agenda:
The Festival’s agenda is designed based on Theory U. Rooted in over two decades of action-research at MIT, this theory provides a conceptual and methodological framework that cultivates essential leadership capacities for personal, organizational, and social transformation grounded in awareness.
It integrates cutting-edge systems thinking, social innovation, presence, art, and transformation to address the root causes of today’s social, environmental, and ontological divides, shifting from an ego-system logic to an eco-system logic.
To learn more about Theory U, click here.
Festival Incluir para Crecer
2026 Edition
The Festival Incluir para Crecer begins to shape its 2026 edition, with activities that reinforce its commitment to fostering dialogue and practices toward inclusive economies.
2026 Edition
The fourth edition focuses on care and regeneration: economies capable of honoring life, repairing relationships, and building collective wellbeing.
It brings together artistic experiences, spaces for multi-stakeholder dialogue, action research, and collaborative work, generating knowledge that strengthens organizations and communities.
A catalyst for partnerships and learning that transcend the festival itself and become real projects.
We designed this Festival as a mini-U: a collective journey through three moments that invites us to see, sense, and act from a broader awareness.
A process in which art, dialogue, the body, and encounter enable us to imagine and co-create worlds capable of sustaining and regenerating life in all its diversity.
ATTENTION
Creative Experimentation Workshop
Opening our gaze. Listening to what is alive. Attention is a profound act of openness. We open our senses, suspend our habitual patterns, and become available to perceive reality as it is: the relationships, ecosystems, tensions, and possibilities that move through us as a planetary community.
Art Workshop for World-Making · Community Imagination
This arts workshop begins with simple yet profound questions, creating a space for collective creation. Through multiple forms of expression—body, image, words, and materials—we imagine and express the planet we dream of: one in which the vitality of all ecosystems and their inhabitants can flourish.
Practical information about this activity can be found below.
ATTENTION and PRESENCE
Global Dialogues
Listening as a way of inhabiting presence
In this second space of Attention, listening becomes a living conversation.
A space where worlds that rarely meet come together: organizations, companies, communities, individuals, and activist movements sit down to dialogue, not to impose answers, but to be present, to open boundaries, and to allow new shared understandings to emerge.
Three generative conversations will take place:
Biodiversity
Coexistence
Culture
Date: beginning of September
Location: 22nd Floor, WTC Montevideo Free Zone
Format: in-person and online
Presence, intention
Pausing, noticing what to let go of in order to make space for what is to come. Choosing from the heart what we want to care for and regenerate.
AGENCY
Putting the body forward. Turning awareness into action.
Art for and of Regeneration
Agency is the moment in which intention becomes a collective gesture.
Awareness takes shape through art: dance, live music, and performance. Movement is expressed, and creative action becomes shared territory.
This gathering proposes art as a universal language to connect worlds and co-create forms of coexistence in which all nature and all expressions of human diversity have a place to belong, participate, and flourish.
Here, we do not only imagine other worlds: we rehearse them through the body, inhabit them for a moment, and sow the conditions for them to expand.
Date: April 2027
Location: to be confirmed
Format: in-person and online
Primera activación · Imaginación comunitaria
Art workshop for world-making
The experience is guided by artists, educators, and creators who open spaces to experiment, think, and create in common.
We open the 4th edition of Incluir para Crecer — Latin American Inclusive Economy Festival with an open arts workshop that invites us to imagine, feel, and create collectively.
We begin with simple yet profound questions:
What does a world full of life feel like?
What does it look like, sound like?
What makes it not only habitable, but capable of sustaining and regenerating life in its diversity?
Through different languages—body, image, word, and matter—we open a space for collective creation to express the planet we dream of: a world where the vitality of ecosystems and all forms of life is possible.
The workshop will be facilitated by artists, educators, and researchers from the Incluir para Crecer team.
It will have an initial in-person edition in Montevideo and will later expand, through facilitators, to other territories across the country, the region, and the world.
In this edition, art takes a central place: as an accessible and powerful language, capable of moving even what we do not yet have words for.
Practical information
Date: Saturday, May 16
Time: 10:00 to 13:30 h
Location: Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism (FADU), Bulevar Artigas 1031, Montevideo, Uruguay
Participation: open activity, suitable for all ages
We work from a logic of inclusive and solidarity-based economy. Participation is open to anyone who needs it.
Voluntary contributions help sustain the activity and expand access to more people.
As part of our ongoing journey at the Festival Incluir para Crecer, we participated in the Ecosystem Leadership Program by the Presencing Institute in Mexico, where we carried out an activation that brought together people from around the world.
If you’d like to learn more about this experience, read the full article on our blog.
"Any action that harms the planet or does not respect the dignity of all people is not part of development."
With this Festival, we are contributing to the SDGs.
ODS 4
Inclusive, equitable, and quality education.
ODS 5
Gender Equality.
ODS 8
Decent work and inclusive, sustainable economic growth.
ODS 10
Reduction of inequalities.
ODS 16
Just, peaceful, and inclusive societies.
ODS 17
Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals.
Team
Mercedes Viola
Manuela Da Silveira
Magdalena Cosco
Mercedes Cosco
Maria Viola
Valentina Bidart
Marcela Queirolo
Dana Poklepovic
Eloísa Peluffo
Federico Cosco
Lorena Muiño
