Perceiving-making forest: alliances between the arts, sciences and communications in view of the Anthropocene

• Grant number: 22/05981-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2023
• End date: January 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Communications
• Principal Investigator: Susana Oliveira Dias
• Grantee: Susana Oliveira Dias
• Host Institution: Núcleo de Desenvolvimento da Criatividade (NUDECRI). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Adrián Cangi ; Adriana Nora Menegaz ; Alice Copetti Dalmaso ; Alik Wunder ; Antônio Carlos Queiroz do Ó Filho ; Antonio Carlos Rodrigues de Amorim ; Carlos José Martins ; Carolina Cantarino Rodrigues ; Daniela Garcia ; David Montenegro Lapola ; Eduardo Aníbal Pellejero ; Eduardo Mario Mendiondo ; Emanuely Miranda Nogueira Rangel ; Gabriel Cid de Garcia ; Gabriela Aloras ; Izabela Fonseca Aleixo ; Julia Silvia Guivant ; Larissa de Souza Bellini ; Lilian Maus Junqueira ; Luis Felipe de Toledo Ramos Pereira ; Marcos Aurélio Barbai ; Maria Jimena Nores ; Mariana Sanmartino ; Mariana Vilela Leitão ; Marina Souza Lobo Guzzo ; Mary Elizabeth Vidal ; Michele Fernandes Gonçalves ; Milena Bachir Alves ; Muriel Emilia Scarnichia ; Natalia Aranha de Azevedo ; Paulo Cesar da Silva Teles ; Renzo Romano Taddei ; Sandra Elena Murriello ; Santiago Arcila Rodríguez ; Sebastian Alexi Wiedemann Caballero ; Sigifredo Esquivel Marin ; Sylvia Helena Furegatti ; Tatiana Plens Oliveira ; Teresita Ospina Alvarez ; Tiago Amaral Sales ; Valeria Cotaimich ; Wenceslao Machado de Oliveira Junior
• Associated scholarship(s): 23/03090-2 - Communication and multispecies studies in the face of the Anthropocene: The case of the cane toads., BP.MS

Abstract

This project aims to think collaboratively, in multiple interactions between researchers from Brazil (Unicamp, Unifesp, Unesp, USP, UFRJ, UFSC, UFRN, UFES, UFRGS, UFSM), Argentina (UNRN, UNC, UNAJ, CONICET) and Colombia (UA, PUC, Colectivo Otros Presentes), about one problem: what can the alliances between Arts, Sciences and Communications in the face of the Anthropocene offer us? Our team's experiences lead us to think that the answer to this question goes beyond the mere denunciation of the dangerous forces at play in the Anthropocene, and of convincing the public of such dangers, getting us to a "perceiving-making forest". It does so because it turns its languages into laboratories-workshops of experimentation on sensitive ways of living, feeling and thinking together that take a critique of anthropocentrism seriously, that invent themselves in affirmative alliances with creatures other than humans, that experience a non-opposition between natures and cultures and assume that narratives are also part of the ways of existing that have to be cared for, of the refuges that must be rebuilt and of the habitable worlds that must be cultivated. In order to test this hypothesis we will carry out a research based on the methodology of speculative fabulation, having plants, animals, rivers, clouds and bacteria as companies.The research will involve: 1) comparative analyzes of artistic, scientific and cultural experiences with the Anthropocene, conceived in the last 20 years by the team itself and by other teams in Europe and the United States; 2) conceptual and methodological invention; 3) collective processes of research and creation in online seminars and undergraduate and postgraduate disciplines; 4) an artistic residency that will take place in the Amazon forest, as part of the Amazon Face Project, as well as in Campinas, in the Mata Santa Genebra, on the banks of the Anhumas River, in ateliers of regional artists, in the gardens and laboratories of UNICAMP and in workshop meetings with the project team and guest scientists; and 5) artistic, scientific and cultural communication. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SUSANA OLIVEIRA DIAS. Alianças Vegetais: espécies companheiras de ensino diante do Antropoceno. Educ. Real., v. 48, 2023-10-06. (22/05981-9, 14/50848-9)

GUZZO, MARINA SOUZA LOBO; DIAS, SUSANA OLIVEIRA; MORAES, ALANA; FAGUNDES, GUILHERME MOURA; RIBEIRO, WALMERI; ALVES, KIDAUANE REGINA; TADDEI, RENZO. Artistic Practices in the Anthropocene. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES, v. 49, p. 25-pg., 2024-01-01. (14/50848-9, 22/05981-9)