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Ecotonal Assemblies is an artistic research project that investigates eco- tones – zones of transi- tion 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 bio- logical diversity intensi- fies and systems overlap, to question how spatial boundaries are drawn, maintained, or transfor- med in architecture and urban space. Through artistic methods such as cartographic fieldwork, textile installation, spe- culative storytelling, and environmental forensics, the project explores how thresholds between ma- terials, climates, species, and disciplines can be- come zones of negotia- tion, encounter, and sha- red responsibility.

The ecotone becomes both concept and method: a way to render visible what often remains over- looked – gradients, tensi- ons, contaminations, and collaborations. In this context, architectural boundaries as walls, win- dows and fences are not treated as neutral lines, but as dynamic, inhabi- ted interfaces that ask for alternative forms of aesthetic, ecological, and political attention. Operating across five conceptual territories – Defining, Detecting, Conflicting, Aestheticising, and Fabulating – the exhibition assem- bles theoretical profiles, spatial experiments, and multimedia installati- ons. From window to a wetland or different hed- ges, Ecotonal Assemblies stages these spaces not as limits, but as sites of possibility and imagina- tion.

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