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photos from the july 2008 research trip made by CALTECH students to Guatemala.

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Photographs from Guatemalan students´ visit to Pasadena

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Photographs of resulting development/prototypes during the 2008 term.

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located in Antigua itself, a completely developed shop (in tiny space), using all sort of tools and industrialized machinery to work with silver, silver combined with other metals, iron, bronze, tin, and other metals. Not the best attitude to work with students, highly demanding, and former Antigua Artisans Association president: Juan Antonio Juarez. Phone 5614 0907

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Failed Landivar project consisting of a chicken farm donated to women in Chipiacul. Administration was mishandled and the chicken were sold. Infrastructure is abandoned, contains all tooling and furniture required.

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Greenhouse producing tomatoes in Chipiacul, Chimaltenango. Ventilation and design is inappropiate and the plastic tears and breaks. structure is weak, and heat inside is too high to properly raise the vegetables. this ends up requiring additional watering.

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As we visited a clay shop in Jocotenango, we had a chance to photograph their raw material and their required grade for clay crafts. the refining process is done by hand, and is very tedious and time consuming.

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A typical brick and tilemaking shop in Chimaltenango. they extract the material from the ground, and they have to refine it by hand (breaking the material into smaller chunks) and then work it with their feet to make the clay. as we noticed, preparing the material takes them considerably more time then actually making the roofing tiles or bricks.

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In Chipiacul, women also weave and do embroidery. They still use the ancient backstrap loom. Older women sit in the ground while weaving, but younger women now choose to sit higher (in a chair or box)

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Inside Veronica Ordonez and Eugenio Mendez´s house, they operate a small tin crafts shop. they cut and mold the leaves by hand from tin scrap, and solder them with an old fashioned tool heated by coal. the painting is later done by hand. the process of making the leaves is painstaking, to fill an order of 500 trees they cut 14,000 leaves by hand.

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Here we could appreciate the local craft of Jocotenango (a small town next to Antigua). wooden fruit. they are roughly shaped in a lathe (made by themselves) they hand carved and sanded. finished in glossy laquer or acrylic (depending on realism wanted) they sell from Q25 to Q50 each.

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Then we visited a skilled, but very poor wooden fruit maker in Jocotenango. his shop is small, his tools are limited, but he produces beautiful pieces and even miniatures (a house and a tiny marimba).

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