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The residency links art and conservation across wetlands, salinas, sand dunes, and coastal lagoons, focusing on sustainability, socio-biodiversity, innovation, and climate awareness. Each dawn is dedicated to mist-netting and bird ringing following EURING standards, while afternoons open space for cross-disciplinary exploration, drawing, photography, sound, and working with natural materials gathered in the field. The focus is on observation, notation, and translation of field experience into visual or narrative forms.

This is a collaborative and immersive program for artists and researchers engaged with ecology-related practice. It is grounded in hands-on fieldwork, listening, and research on oral culture, folklore, and traditional knowledge. Participants can engage with diverse ecological themes, birds, plants, insects, amphibians, bats, and small mammals, and may also explore sound-based work (bioacoustics and field recording).

Scientists, artists, musicians, curators, ecologists, anthropologists, activists, and even non-human “voices” are invited to create together, offering new perspectives on Albania’s Protected Areas, Important Bird Areas (IBAs), Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), candidate Emerald sites, and future Natura 2000 sites.