Infosession – Ecologies of the Amazon – From the Forests to the Rivers in Brazil

“The rivers — beings that have always inhabited worlds in different forms — suggest to me that if there is a future to be imagined, it is an ancestral one, because it has always been here.”

—Ailton Krenak

Over three weeks, students will engage in meetings with scientists, workshops with artists and local organizations, field excursions, museum visits, and interactions with Indigenous and riverside communities. The program will combine days of theoretical grounding, forest immersion, boat journeys along the Amazon’s rivers, and studio work in the city of Manaus. Ancestral knowledge and non-human technologies will be explored as essential components for building more sustainable relationships with the forest — and beyond.