On 7 November 2025, the Transformative Territories project was presented by Inland as part of the Walk&Talk Biennial on São Miguel Island, Azores (Portugal). The intervention took place within the Biennial’s symposium programme hosted at Casa da Bienal and reached an audience of approximately 35–50 participants, including artists, curators, researchers, and members of the local community.
The session was delivered by Fernando García-Dory, representing INLAND, through an online presentation projected onsite. This format enabled the project to be embedded within the Biennial’s international programme while maintaining a strong connection with the local audience and context.
The talk introduced the Transformative Territories project, situating it within broader discussions on the relationships between territories, geopolitics, culture, identity, and rural–urban dynamics. Particular attention was given to how contemporary artistic practices engage with rurality, landscape, and forms of collective organisation, and how these practices can operate as tools for territorial transformation.
Fernando García-Dory’s intervention combined conceptual framing with a guided walk-through of the Transformative Territories website and project materials, allowing participants to engage with both the theoretical foundations and the concrete outputs of the project. This approach supported a clear understanding of the project’s objectives, methodologies, and relevance within current international debates on land, community, and cultural practice.
Biennial Context and Relevance
The Walk&Talk Biennial is recognised as a major platform for artistic and territorial reflection in the Azores, with a strong emphasis on participatory, transdisciplinary, and place-based approaches. This context provided a particularly relevant framework for disseminating Transformative Territories, as it aligns closely with the project’s focus on situated practices, collective knowledge production, and long-term engagement with specific territories.
By embedding the presentation within the Biennial’s symposium, the project was positioned within global conversations on landscape, rural futures, and cultural geopolitics, while remaining attentive to local specificities and lived experiences.
Overall, this dissemination activity contributed to strengthening the visibility of Transformative Territories within international cultural networks and reinforced its positioning as a relevant framework for thinking through contemporary relationships between art, territory, and social transformation.
