Mapping
Atlas of initiatives
A participatory map of agroecological initiatives in Bignona and Mbour - making visible what is already happening on the ground.
Project · SOR4D · Senegal · 2023 – 2026
ARTS
Agroecology for Resilient Territories in Senegal
Bringing agroecology, the arts and science into dialogue to drive the transition of food systems - a programme I co-direct.
What if art and situated knowledge were at the heart of the agroecological transition?
ARTS is a transdisciplinary research-action programme funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the SDC (the SOR4D instrument), run with the University of Bern and CREATES. It works in two Senegalese territories - Bignona in Casamance and Mbour on the Petite Côte - where farmers, researchers, local authorities and civil society co-design the transition.
My contribution: connecting territorial research to creation - forum theatre, photography, video, mapping - so that findings don't stay in reports, but return to communities and feed public debate.
Forum theatre
"Land of all covetousness"
An immersive play on land, gender and agroecology: five acts, thirteen improvisations, an interactive tribunal where the audience becomes the judge. Theatre as a method of research and engagement - making the tensions of a transition felt, and replaying them together.
The report in elements
What ARTS produced
Photography · Dak'Art 2024
Yaay Dund
The photography competition and the art-science-society programme led by ARTS at the Dak'Art Biennale 2024.
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Video
The Jambaars of agroecology
A series of filmed portraits of those driving the transition - farmers, growers, keepers of knowledge - and field podcasts.
Foresight
Bignona 2045
A transformative scenario-building exercise: collectively imagining the territory's food systems by 2045, built on the participatory diagnosis.
Governance
The DyTAEL platforms
Local dynamics for the agroecological transition (Bignona, Mbour): arenas where the transition is negotiated collectively, at the local scale.
Research
Publications
Papers, workshop proceedings and transdisciplinary presentations - from feminist agroecology to the crossing of theatre and geography.
The interactive report
All of ARTS, online
The ARTS final report lives as a website in its own right - a narrative you can read in fifteen minutes, a map, an immersive theatre, videos and publications.