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Habitat

Habitat


Habitat is an inter-weaving space, which I have set up during my time as the Head of Communication at the Wyss Academy for Nature. It is a physical space – a gallery and co-design room – but also a mental one where art meets different disciplines. Science meets with entrepreneurs and policy, and again with […]

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Digital Storyteller Project

Digital Storyteller Project


Between the year 2018 and 2020, we embarked on a journey in training researcher and their partners in documenting their work through video. “We” consisted of a partnership with over 50 researchers in 26 countries, who were a supported by a team collaborating between Switzerland,  Portugal, Bolivia and eventually Benin. As the project designer and […]

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Shared land (Tierra Compartida)

Shared land (Tierra Compartida)


Buffer zones play a major role in bridging the divide between conservation and inclusive development. Historically, the buffer zones were introduced as a neutral area between countries or two areas of domination. From today’s conservationist perspective, they could be understood as a pilot area to demonstrate how balance between people and nature can be achieved. […]

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Literatura do Cordel (String Literature)

Literatura do Cordel (String Literature)


Cordel is like a time machine back to when news travelled through the voice of poets offering their booklets on a string (the Cordel) across the backlands of Northeastern Brasil. Crato is the home of a group of people - The Academia dos Cordelistas do Crato - who made it their goal to preserve the [...]
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Chrysalis

Chrysalis


In the Chrysalis, we follow the journey of a caterpillar morphing into a butterfly.         We connect to an intense longing for shedding our old form. We ask and feel: what does it mean to stop crawling and start growing wings? What can this experience show us about our story as humans [...]
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Casa Grande Foundation

Casa Grande Foundation


Casa Grande is set in a small village in the backlands of Northeastern Brasil.       It is a place where children of all ages are taught about music and media. In the course of reflecting traditional culture through the eyes of young people, we co-created a film and produced it together. The most [...]
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Hope Activism

Hope Activism


Hope Activism (2015-2018) Hope Activism took place as a series of sound performances in several places. It was created as viewer’s response to my previous work “Lullaby of Tomorrow”. After watching this highly polemic video installation around the Israel- Palestine conflict, people were led to meditate. During this meditation, the invitation was to find the […]

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Lullaby of Tomorrow

Lullaby of Tomorrow


Lullaby of Tomorrow – Video Installation (2010-2014) “How women explain the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to their children” Four women, mothers from Israel and Palestine, were invited to make a film answering a simple question: “How do you explain this conflict to your child?” Yvette, Rima, Sarah and Abeer. Each one with a different life story. As […]

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Imaginal Cells

Imaginal Cells


Imaginal Cells is a screen-play for an international feature film adapted from the Novel “The Heart of the Labyrinth” blurring the lines between imagined and manifested reality. Being invited as a researcher on shamanic practices in Bolivia and as a co-author, I created a piece of storytelling that seeks to take responsibility for whatever it [...]
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Street Art – Balberstrasse

Street Art – Balberstrasse


In the course of a large construction site "invading" the neighborhood, we organized an open canvas for people to leave their traces. The offer was to draw their silhouette together with their favorite animal. Pot of paint were organized, parents and children recruited. And the painting took off, and became more, until..One day: Everything was [...]
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