Experiments at the interface between art, anthropology and science to re-design health campaigns against mosquito-borne diseases

Experiments at the interface between art, anthropology and science to re-design health campaigns against mosquito-borne diseases

Alejandro Valencia-Tobon / Colombia
Autonomous university of Occident

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www.alejandrovalenciat.com

The reality is that the number of people becoming infected with mosquito-borne diseases is increasing each year. Dengue ranks as the most important mosquito-borne viral disease. I present mosquito-borne diseases from another point of view, suggesting that the "over-automation" of health campaigns must be replaced by new ways of seeing and thinking about them. Through the creation of Vampires (https://goo.gl/Da7Yyn), the Mosquito Kite (http://goo.gl/oQt2gV), Serotype (http://goo.gl/NnTg6P) and Buzzing (https: / /goo.gl/Zjjzmu), I argue that the simplistic understanding of mosquito-borne diseases centered on the elimination of mosquito breeding sites only leads to inaccurate and imprecise observations of the human-human relationship. mosquito-virus.