Activations
Every dated thing the platform has done—workshops, exhibitions, residencies, interventions and archival work.
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Exhibition
EZOLOGIA — Porous Body of Tbilisi
An exhibition asking how the typology of the Tbilisian Courtyard shapes the city’s urban fabric—analytical maps, archival documents, photo essays and film, alongside our installation on reclaiming the imagination of the city.
Karvasla — Tbilisi History Museum Tbilisi, Georgia Part of EZOLOGIA and [UN]COMMON THREADS
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Network
Confluence of European Water Bodies
The river Mtkvari, sole water body from Georgia among 58 across the Confluence of European Water Bodies, entering a network spanning 18 countries built to rethink political representation for water itself.
Part of Contested Waters
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Exhibition
Dineba — A Digital Archive of Georgia’s Ecological Landscape
An exhibition presenting a polyphonic archive of Chiatura’s geological, social and infrastructural wounds—including the first public screening of Andro Chiaureli’s 1989 documentary film The Wound.
Design Institute Tbilisi, Georgia Part of Affective Geologies
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![A participant writing in Georgian on a printed [UN]COMMON THREADS worksheet.](https://withnessing.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/reclaiming-imagination-workshop.webp)
Workshop
Reclaiming Imagination of the City
An iteration of [UN]COMMON THREADS on the future of Tbilisi, in which participants wrote as local communities, heritage professionals, planners and developers, or the city’s nonhuman citizens.
Design Institute Tbilisi, Georgia Part of [UN]COMMON THREADS and EZOLOGIA
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Archival work
Digitising The Wound
The rediscovery and digitisation of Andro Chiaureli’s 1989 documentary film The Wound (ჭრილობა), carried out with the director himself and the National Archives of Georgia.
National Archives of Georgia Tbilisi, Georgia Part of Affective Geologies
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Workshop
Writing-Reading Laboratory 2045
An iteration of [UN]COMMON THREADS held with Xaraxura Press, asking participants to write from within a 2045 in which a pervasive instability known as The Trembling has become a central condition of life.
Xaraxura Press Tbilisi, Georgia Part of [UN]COMMON THREADS
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![Four printed briefs laid out on a dark green table, each holding a folded deck of [UN]COMMON THREADS cards marked with a coloured stakeholder disc—Organisers, Creatives, Locals and Audiences—with four patterned blank cards below.](https://withnessing.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/forecast-festival-2045.webp)
Workshop
Forecast Festival 2045
The first activation of [UN]COMMON THREADS, held at Forecast Festival 9, asking participants to speculate on the future of the art festival itself from four stakeholder positions.
Radialsystem Berlin, Germany Part of [UN]COMMON THREADS
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Workshop
Architecture of Cure
Collective storytelling workshop held at a five-day programme organised by DAI-SAI at the modernist former Children’s Health Resort in Krvavica, exploring the site’s history and contemporaneity alongside local and international artists, architects and researchers.
Former Children’s Health Resort Krvavica, Croatia Part of Between Exhaustion and Cure
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Residency
Floating Threshold
A residency on the Swedish island of Orust following small bodies of water, glacial grooves and human traces, resulting in an architectural object proposed as an instrument for connecting with diverse bodies of water.
Artist in Coexistence Åsen, Orust, Sweden Part of Contested Waters
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Lecture series
Horror Vacui Vol.1: Instability
A series of guest lectures delivered as part of one course at ETSAM Madrid, contributing to the MPAA15 programme’s investigation of instability in architecture as creative opportunity rather than limitation.
ETSAM — Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, UPM Madrid, Spain
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Intervention
Harvester of Floating Data
Two oscillating objects on the rivers Mtkvari and Göta älv, exploring alternative observations of an area shaped by geological change in deep time as well as by cultural and political modification.
River Mtkvari, Ortachala, Tbilisi, Georgia · River Göta älv, Frihamnen, Gothenburg, Sweden Part of Contested Waters
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