The project took shape between 2021 and 2024 through a collective process. Together with architects, researchers, artisans, marine biologists, and local communities, we developed an ephemeral structure: a lightweight tent designed to be installed on beaches as a space for gathering, learning, and exploration. Part of the process included early experiments with marine biologists, such as submerging clay pieces in the deep waters off the coast of Las Cruces—experimental reefs for fish. These gestures allowed us to explore the material relationship between art and environment before landing on the final format for the tent.

The first activation took place on December 20, 2024, at Playa Chica in Las Cruces. In the months leading up to it, we hosted community workshops with shellfish gatherers, artisans, and neighbors, who later co-designed the program: public talks, microscopy and speculative drawing workshops, craft exhibitions, and a nighttime video projection that transformed the beach into an open-air cinema. That day, the tent operated as an open classroom, weaving together learning rooted in place and generating a collective experience.

In the following months, alongside the teams from Nube Lab and the Estación Costera de Investigaciones Marinas (ECIM UC), we brought those learnings into local schools through educational workshops inspired by the world of the jellyfish—inviting students to think, create, and experiment. We also made the materials available in open-access format for use by other communities.

Today, In the Medusa’s Tent remains available to travel to new territories. I see this project not only as an artwork but as an adaptable platform for imagining more sustainable and sensitive futures—exploring, through the intersection of art, science, and community, new ways of inhabiting the coastal edge.