This is the site of the ‘Life Projects Network,’ a portal to access a variety of ongoing experiments across the Americas that seek to foster the various practices of a good life that emerge from particular places, historical trajectories and conceptions of reality. The term ‘Life Projects’ is fundamentally a place holder that stands for practices of a good life that in one way or another differ from ‘Development Projects’ (in both, Right and Left wing versions), that is, visions and practices of a good life premised on the primacy of the ‘Human. ’ From a developmental perspective, a good life for Humans is achieved through the accumulative movement towards some sort of better place located in the (ever receding) future, even if that movement needs to be fueled by all kinds of environmental and social sacrifices in the present. To these visions and practices ( “Development”) we counterpoise “Life Projects.” Life projects constitute living examples that other good lives are possible beyond the developmentalist vision.
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