Drawing from her long-standing engagement with riverside communities along the Pasig-Marikina River in Metro Manila, Nathalie’s work investigates how people live with risk, how knowledge is shaped through everyday practices like walking and gardening, and how these forms of knowledge intersect with institutional disaster research. Her artistic research is grounded in sensory experiences of landscapes and in participatory workshops that surface vernacular understandings of climate vulnerability and resilience. Rather than contrasting “local” and “scientific” knowledge, she looks at how both are co-constructed—shaped by cultural, historical, and political contexts.

Over three months, Nathalie engaged in conversations with climate scientists, anthropologists, and disaster researchers. She immersed herself in the institutional lifeworlds of science—observing how knowledge is produced, abstracted, and translated into policy and models. This experience challenged her assumptions and informed a growing body of work that reflects on the politics of knowledge and the hierarchies embedded in global climate discourse.The outcomes of her research will take the form of a multi-part installation and community gardening project, developed in dialogue with the people and places she encountered throughout her residency.