Of Bark and Lead, In Search of Stories to Embark on the Critical Zone

Close to the urban mines of the outskirts of Dakar, Claire Dutrait is looking for ways to use tree bark to act as a sensor of the quality of the air, taking on the representation of a polluted territory, to contribute to making it breathable and habitable. Hybrid stories of materials, stories of territory… It's a question of embarkinging on the deployment of these sensors and the opportunity to design a creative narrative about ecological emergency.