☰ SEA TO MOUNT
NERU - New Ruralities
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September 2024 Barbanza, Galiza |
course on soil science and artistic creation with international architecture and urban planing students |
Along several research trips, they developed the ability to read the ecossistems' state of health and to critically analyse it acording to theories of ecological succession.
In the lab, they learned how to identify the main functional groups of microorgnisms playing key roles in the natural progression of soils, from the initial ones (along the coastline), to the more developed and complex ones (forests above certain altitudes).
Under our artistic direction, the students devised a public performance in which they prsented a narrative describing each of the places studied, in a progressive order of growing complexity, biodiversity and ecological development.
Taking a critical stance, they included various analises to the impat, which different territorial and land managment attitudes have in the ecological state of local biomes and, therefore, on fundamental resources such as potable water, soil fertility and the quality of air and sea water.
The performance included a soundpiece featuring a narrative voiced by students themselves, who also embodyed it through movements where imagens of microscopic analysis were shown, whist diagrams and technical annotations were being written on the ground.
All these gestures unfolded over a scaled countour map where material samples from each of the places studied were unvailed one by one.