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Biophilia and Art: Deep Ecology
mayo 17 @ 08:00 - 17:00
Dates: Saturdays, May 3, 10 and 17, 2025
Location: AlMarsam Arts Center, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Directed by: Dr. Koncha Pinos, director of The Wellbeing Planet
Duration: 90 minutes
Prior registration required
General description
This workshop proposes a deep aesthetic and sensory experience from the Colombian jungles as a living symbol of what is still possible to protect. Through the encounter with the work of the artist Duván López, inspired directly by the jungle, we will ask ourselves:
Can a work of art awaken awareness and commitment to life?
In a context of climate crisis and loss of biodiversity, this workshop is offered as a space to feel, think and act from the symbolic, a bridge between contemplating and caring, between seeing and protecting.
See with ecological awareness
From the perspective of deep ecology (Arne Næss, Joanna Macy), every gaze that rests on nature carries a responsibility. Art not only represents the jungle: it invokes it, preserves it, reinterprets it. In this workshop, we will explore how the strokes, shapes and colors of Duván López’s work can act as detonators of reflection, memory and action.
Contents and activities
• Introduction to deep ecology and biophilia in art
• Commented visualization of Duván López’s works on the Colombian jungle
• Aesthetic reading: what do we perceive when looking at a painted forest?
• Creative exercise: “What the jungle awakens in me” – free expression with natural pigments
• Conversation: from art to commitment – how do you awaken the desire to protect what is contemplated?
• Collective creation of a small altar or installation to pay tribute to the forest
• Closing with a word circle: what action is born from what I have seen?
Who is it aimed at?
• People interested in art, ecology, and new forms of planetary awareness
• Artists, educators, environmental psychologists, cultural mediators
• Students of sustainability, philosophy, art or political science
• General public with a desire to look at the world from a more sensitive and committed place
No previous experience is required. Only disposition to see in depth.
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