Yara Costa is a Mozambican filmmaker and artist working at the intersection of ecology, indigenous knowledge, and storytelling. For her EMBracing the Ocean project, she will explore the interaction between science and ancient oral tradition of the coastal communities along Mozambique’s Swahili coast to protect marine biodiversity and stengthen our bond with the Ocean. In collaboration with marine biologists Yara Tibiriça (Stazione Anton Dohrn, Italy) and Myram Beck (Humboldt University, Germany), she will create an immersive sensorial storytelling experience aboard an interactive physical dhow boat.
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ChihChung Chang is a visual artist and cultural researcher based in the Netherlands and Taiwan. His art explores rapidly shifting environments such as ships, islands, water, and ports, uncovering universal experiences and the grey areas within the tensions among humanity, civilization, and nature as they continuously shape one another. For his EMBracing the Ocean project he will explore antifouling paint and its environmental impacts by developing a puzzle game to spark dialogue among stakeholders. He will work in collaboration with Associate Professor Lena Granhag (Chalmers Univserity of Technology, Sweden)
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