Healing Garden – Art Exhibition at #CIHE2025
The Healing Garden installation was presented at the 2nd International Congress of Ecological Humanities (#CIHE 2025) at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. The art exhibition: Planetary kinship for planetary well-being invited visitors into a space of collective sensemaking and reflection, where diverse voices, of artist-researcher-activists explore urgent planetary questions through creative, situated, and interdisciplinary means.
Our Healing Garden research in Hungary includes a variety of observational techniques, like time-lapse recordings, soundscapes, and multisensory observations combined with reflective writing. These techniques provide a holistic perspective, combining ecological data with sensory and experiential insights, presenting primary motifs such as textures, materials, plants, natural elements, movements, and overall atmosphere.
The installation explores how sensorial engagement with the environment can transform our connection to more-than-human beings and influence design processes. The conference installation showcased this research through a coherent presentation of videos, photography, data visualizations, affordance mappings, and soundscapes created by the research process.
Set against a backdrop of digital screens, printed visuals, and natural sculptures, the installation invited conference attendees to experience the garden's atmosphere and its complex ecosystem, encouraging a deeper understanding of its multisensory and ecological significance.
