Prosthetic Ecologies

PROSTHETIC ECOLOGIES

A set of projects developed as ecosystemic prolongations, testing how sculptural systems can intervene in existing environments to enhance, expose, or support living processes through material feedback.

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Project

Description

HORTA DE NÉVOA

A site-specific humidity-harvesting system that nurtures hidden microbial ecologies within abandoned architectural infrastructures, through atmosphetic and sonic feedback

Context

Developed in Shopyard residency in May 2025 for Braga 25 Portuguese capital of culture.

Public presentation

May 2025 &

November 2025

at Centro Comericial Santa Bárbara and at Centro Comercial Santa Cruz (Braga, Portugal)

FONTE

An eroding fountain that operates as a living water-care prosthesis, dissolving its own body to purify and nourish aquatic ecosystems.

Developed for SLA International Festival

September 2024 October 2024

at Galerie Zoom (Sète, France) & Convento dos Capuchos (Lisbon, Portugal)