INTERFACES: on the poetic imagination and other artifices of language

Abstract

This research-creation project emerges as a critical reflection on the power devices embedded in the history of science and European colonization, particularly through the botanical expeditions of the 17th and 18th centuries. Drawing from these historical references, the project proposes a pedagogical experience developed in the course Emerging and Alternative Image, which combines scientific observation strategies with artistic and poetic languages to imagine alternative universes inhabited by fictional species. The process is documented in a "travel book" that records the stages of creation, sensory exploration, and collective knowledge production, culminating in a multisensory art installation that challenges the boundaries between art, science, and pedagogy. INTERFACES is conceived as a posthuman ecosystem that displaces anthropocentrism and opens new inquiries into imagination, ecology, art, and knowledge.