Tidal Time – A participatory drawing method on multispecies time, field sketching, and posthuman thinking.
This method has been developed by Katerina Inglezaki based on her work on multispecies ethnography and cartography.
Agenda (~90 min)
- Welcome and introduction to the network.
- Workshop session #3
- Q&A
In this workshop, Katerina Inglezaki introduces tidalectic drawing as a method for reflecting on more-than-human temporalities and ecological relations. Drawing on multispecies ethnography, walking practices, and critical cartography, participants will explore how non-human rhythms, such as tides, seasonal cycles, and environmental processes, shape our experiences in ways that often remain unnoticed. Through short presentations and hands-on collective exercises, participants will experiment with translating lived encounters into circular temporal maps, using drawing as a tool for attunement, reflection, and relational thinking. The session embraces messy sketches and exploratory annotations as ways of thinking, and no specific drawing skills are required. Participants are welcome to work with simple digital shapes on the shared Miro board, and those who wish to experiment further are encouraged to have pens and paper nearby. Together, we will explore drawing not as representation but as a method for attunement, noticing, and composing alternative ways of sensing time, relation, and ecological interdependence.
Katerina Iglezaki is an architect and urbanist based in Lisbon and currently a PhD researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute. Situated at the intersection of landscape ecology and urban design, her work explores interspecies interactions and human-nonhuman synergies through a posthumanistic lens. Using storytelling-based spatial analysis, she collaborates extensively with social and natural scientists to translate field-based observations into visual representations that capture the relational dynamics of ecological systems. She holds degrees in Urbanism from TU Delft (NL) and Architectural Engineering from DUTH (GR). She is a recipient of the LARSyS Laboratory scholarship and is part of the Bauhaus of the Seas collective.