Common Territories, Georgia.

Last week, I had the enormous privilege of participating in the project “Water Bodies” as part of the program Common Territories and the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial. This course has been focusing on water bodies particularly on the Enguri River, Anaklia, and Abkhazia. It was my first time in Georgia and the best entrance possible to the context as it was a fascinating program merging academic exploration, political/cultural immersion, fieldwork and collective creation.

The course/creative space focus was on water as a shared resource in a border zone region, marked by political and social complexities as Anaklia has been the location of this engagement. The Enguri River, a vital lifeline for the region, also a border in itself, has been at the heart of conflicts and development projects, and experiencing and seeing the river and its delta from the various perspectives, including environmental, social, and political has been so enriching.

I loved the collective field work we did in the area of the Delta, together with Mari Miriamashuili, Akaki Metreveli and Yuliia Holiuk. This embodied experience allowed us to engage directly with the Enguri River Delta, the delta in itself as well as the local community, focusing on both humans and more than humans. From this process we created a collaborative project titled “Delta’s dance: merging stories” which will be presented at the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial in the coming weeks.

For now, I would like to share some images of the process's course but also from the project creation “Delta’s dance: merging stories”. More will come!

Thank all the people involved in this project, including organisers, mentors, participants and all who accompanied us in this journey, thanks specially to Tinatin, Lado, Rachel, Yuliia, Mari and Akaki.

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