Research
Threads of enquiry.
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[UN]COMMON THREADS
Speculative Storytelling Workshop
An ongoing speculative storytelling workshop that uses illustrated agent cards to build collective narratives of more-than-human futures, adapting its framework to a new thematic context with each iteration.
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Affective Geologies
Archive of Chiatura’s Wounds
An archival and artistic research project tracing the material and psychic traces of ecological change in Chiatura, where the “wound” unites geological scars, community trauma and systemic damage into a single multilayered figure.
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Contested Waters
A Nordic-Caucasian Network for Riverine Ecologies
A transnational network for artistic research and education interrogating how modernist legacies instrumentalise rivers and public imaginaries, placing Sweden’s post-industrial landscapes in dialogue with Georgia’s struggles against extractivism.
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EZOLOGIA
Porous Body of Tbilisi
A critical re-examination of urban typology through Tbilisi’s Mtatsminda district and its shared courtyards, treating typology not as a static category but as an emergent property of habitation.
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Trees
Alternative View on Tbilisi
A research project and bilingual publication on the eco-cultural lives of Tbilisi’s trees, subverting the perspective that disregards the city’s oldest inhabitants and reimagining the city as an intertwined entity.
