Río abajo: diseño de un juego para el aprendizaje de la Ley 70 de comunidades negras de Colombia^*

Law 70 of 1990 recognized the ancestral customs and collective property of Afro-descendant communities in Colombia. However, territorial leaders and authorities have expressed concern that the younger generations, known as “renaissances”, do not have the same knowledge or interest in using the law as their predecessors did. This threatens the continuity of struggles and progress in the defense of their rights. For this reason, a Participatory Action Research process is proposed with the purpose that members of the Colombian Afro-Pacific communities work together with university researchers to find a solution to the problem using the Social Appropriation of the Knowledge model. The methodology used included Creation Research, Participatory Action Research and People-Centered Design strategies. The final result was a board game that includes elements of the Colombian Pacific culture providing an educational experience for young people to learn about the duties and rights contained in the first three chapters of Law 70. The prototype of the game was created and tested by six groups of Afro-descendant youth and a group of older people that includes members of Afro-descendant, indigenous and peasant communities. The participants evaluated the proposal as capable of teaching and incorporating the legal content of Law 70 into the daily life of Afro-Pacific community members. However, new prototypes are needed to reach the final game.