Ecotonal Assemblies is an
artistic research project
that investigates ecotones – zones of transition between ecological
systems – as models for
rethinking the design
and care of built and
unbuilt environments.
The project draws from
the ecological concept of
the ecotone, where biological diversity intensifies and systems overlap,
to question how spatial
boundaries are drawn,
maintained, or transformed in architecture and
urban space. Through
artistic methods such as
cartographic fieldwork,
textile installation, speculative storytelling, and
environmental forensics,
the project explores how
thresholds between materials, climates, species,
and disciplines can become zones of negotiation, encounter, and shared responsibility. The
ecotone becomes both concept and method: a way to render visible
what often remains overlooked – gradients, tensions, contaminations, and
collaborations. In this
context, architectural
boundaries as walls, windows and fences are not
treated as neutral lines,
but as dynamic, inhabited interfaces that ask
for alternative forms of
aesthetic, ecological, and
political attention.
Operating across five
conceptual territories – Defining, Detecting, Conflicting,
Aestheticising, and Fabulating – the project assembles theoretical profiles,
spatial experiments, and
multimedia installations. From window to a
wetland or different hedges, Ecotonal Assemblies
stages these spaces not
as limits, but as sites of
possibility and imagination.