In a first stage, we conducted a series of individual and collective interviews to introduce concepts of ecotones / EC(h)OTONING. These were designed for getting on board different people—academic and other stakeholders—and learn their perspectives.

In a second stage, we conducted field workshops in different sites of the coastal region of Veracruz with groups of invited people related to the theme of transfigurative ecotones in Veracruz. Having read and talked about the different dimensions of ecotones and WUP before the walk, our experience was led to find and perceive WUP and specific ecotones within these transitional time-spaces. Using practices of creative embodiments such as walking, talking and plurisensoriality that “provide an opportunity for co-imagining as a way of inhabiting the landscape” (Bathla 2024:23), we explored San Juan de Ullua, La villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, Quiahuiztlán, Cempoala, Laguna Verde and Caballo Blanco mine. Each of these sites represent different types of intersections. During these visits we also obtained audiovisual material that was processed and used for the ephemeral installation.

In the final stage, we held a free public event in the format of an EC(h)OTONING workspace, which we define as a cosy or provoking opening place where experts, students, and interested persons could hold a presentation and a sustained dialogue that emerged from the triggering installation/exhibition and from the presentations of the different invited guests. 

The launch event particularly targeted to connect:

• • different faculties and campuses of Universiad Veracruzana (such as Xalapa and Tuxpan),
  • local communities, having in mind future collaborations (through master and PhD students' work), and
  • different grassroot movements and NGOs in Xalapa, such as: LaVida, Red de custodies ambientales de los bosques de Veracruz, IARA - Centre for Community and Ecological Projects, Guardianxs del agua Xalapa.