The BioResilience soil field team is currently led by Dr Carmen Montes, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia UNAD de Colombia, in collaboration with Dr Julieth Serrano and Dr Ted Feldpausch (project PI) from the University of Exeter, UK. Dr Montes went to the field to sample soil at 12 plots at La Serrania de las […]
Suggested Dissonance is an invitation to an artistic research process by sharing cross-sectional narratives to questions and encounters. This path will take us through the forest, the relational, the interdisciplinary, the sense of belonging, the notion of place, exchange and dialogue between different kinds of knowledge which are intertwined concepts in a space in between. […]
I was asked to present a “work in progress” intervention in the Social Sciences team meeting at the Instituto Humboldt. This presentation was included in the section“Knowledge systems”. For this presentation I followed a deep mapping strategy trying to generate further transversal narratives across concepts, questions, methods and encounters; ingredients that feed the following outcomes […]
The project allowed me to be based at Instituto Humboldt in Bogotá while undertaking the three months placement. I joined the work dynamic at the department of Social Sciences in the Instituto Humboldt with Dr. Olga Lucia Hernández Manrique on the lead in order to learn from their approach on interdisciplinarity as it is the […]
This workshop was facilitated by Olga Lucia Hernandez and Seila Fernández Arconada with a number of previous discussions between Mónica Amador, Olga Lucia Hernández, Alejandra Osejo y Seila Fernández Arconada in order to accomplish the program of the day. There was an intervention at the windows of the workshop room. Each window holds a concept […]
First virtual meetings are already taking place. The aim is to understand all components of the team looking for ways to integrate and generate spaces in between disciplines. How can an artist contribute in such a project? What has been tackled in the project so far? What do we mean by interdisciplinary collaboration? What are […]
Seila Fernández Arconada will be undertaking an artist placement at the project BioResilience Colombia during a 3 months period between the 2nd of May and the 28th of July in 2019. This is part of the BioResilience’s project cross-component integration (socio-cultural/palaeoecology/forest ecology) and outreach work through joint funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research […]