WRITING | Ligia Oliveira

BOOKS

THE WHOLE BODY IS HANDS AND EYES

Guided by Juhani Pallasmaa’s Animal Architecture, this book apprentice itself to crabs, clams, and oysters; where every sense is touch and each gesture becomes sight, inviting a planetary gaze beyond the human.

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PARTHENOPE'S ODYSSEY

A poetry book revisiting the siren Arthenope to question myth, desire, and the silencing of women.

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SIXTY DAYS OF DAWN

A poetry book reflecting on landscape, memory, and belonging through a sensory and interdisciplinary lens.

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SELECTED ESSAYS AND CHAPTERS

RECONSIDERING THE BODY AND/IN THE LANDSCAPE

A critical essay rethinking body, land, and culture through relational, embodied, and regenerative practices.
Published in Designing in Coexistence – Reflections on Systemic Change, Croatian Pavilion, 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

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EMBRACING THE ABYSS: KINSHIP WITH THE UNKNOWN

A reflective essay on the deep sea as otherness, inviting kinship, care, and new relational imaginaries.
Published in Culturing the Deep Sea: Towards a Common Heritage for Allkind, TBA21–Academy, Ocean Archive Journeys.

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MURMUR: AN ODE TO PLENITUDE AND WONDERMENT

A contemplative text on listening, wonder, and the sacred within everyday encounters with place.
Originally presented at Meet Like the Ocean Festival, TBA21–Academy.

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BODIES OF WATER

An essay on porous bodies, oceanic knowing, and the collapse of the nature–culture divide. Written through immersion and published in Three Knots Magazine.

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RESEARCH-BASED TEXTS

REGENERATIVE PRACTICES, TEACHING AS LEARNING

An exploration of regenerative practice as a situated, relational pedagogy, where learning emerges through presence, care and sustained listening with places and more-than-human worlds.

Published in Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures, Springer Nature.

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MEDIATING HUMAN-NATURE RELATIONSHIPS: CULTURE AND INNOVATION IN URBAN POLICIES FOR FLOURISHING OCEANS AND GLOBAL WELL-BEING

A cultural and policy-based inquiry into how cities, particularly coastal ones, can mediate the human–nature relationship, reframing culture and innovation as tools for ecological and emotional regeneration.

Presented at the 2024 United Nations Ocean Decade Conference.

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ALL RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

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ONGOING WRITING

ARETĒ

Aretē is a place of flourishing, where art, design, and regenerative worlds interconnect. A practice of renewal, shaping futures through embodiment, imagination, intelligence, and care, guided by the rhythms of nature and of a kinder tomorrow.

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THE WHOLE BODY IS HANDS AND EYES

PARTHENOPE'S ODYSSEY A poetry book revisiting the siren Arthenope to question myth, desire, and the silencing of women.

SIXTY DAYS OF DAWN A poetry book reflecting on landscape, memory, and belonging through a sensory and interdisciplinary lens.

An essay on porous bodies, oceanic knowing, and the collapse of the nature–culture divide. Written through immersion and published in Three Knots Magazine.

ALL RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

ARETĒ Aretē is a place of flourishing, where art, design, and regenerative worlds interconnect. A practice of renewal, shaping futures through embodiment, imagination, intelligence, and care, guided by the rhythms of nature and of a kinder tomorrow.

PARTHENOPE'S ODYSSEY

A poetry book revisiting the siren Arthenope to question myth, desire, and the silencing of women.

SIXTY DAYS OF DAWN

A poetry book reflecting on landscape, memory, and belonging through a sensory and interdisciplinary lens.

ARETĒ

Aretē is a place of flourishing, where art, design, and regenerative worlds interconnect. A practice of renewal, shaping futures through embodiment, imagination, intelligence, and care, guided by the rhythms of nature and of a kinder tomorrow.