Inland is one of the six European organisations participating in Transformative Territories: Performing Transition through the Arts, a programme that explores and experiments with collective processes to reconcile with the Earth by inventing new, resilient, and inclusive cultural models through transformative artistic practices. Together, the partners act as laboratories for participatory, transdisciplinary processes rooted in their respective territories.

As part of the programme, we conducted two research-creations in 2024–2025, each activating the programme’s transdisciplinary methodology at the intersection of art, environmental humanities, hard sciences, and local knowledge systems. Both were co-organised by Inland in northern Spain and involved one local artist, Sergio Montero Bravo, and one European artist, Martha Freely, selected through the 2024 COAL Prize. Through these research-creations, Inland contributes to the program’s objective of facilitating ecological transition through transformative artistic practices, while strengthening transnational collaboration across EU territories.

These research-creations culminated in a Creative Assembly, held on 20 October 2025, at Casa de Campo (Madrid, Spain): a collective session of experimentation and reflection co-led by philosopher Patrick Degeorges and geoscientist Hugo Gomes (Instituto Terra e Memória), aimed at developing transferable methodologies for transformative artistic practices. Together, Gomes and Degeorges offered complementary perspectives on how to think, sense, and act within territories facing ecological and social challenges.

The Creative Assembly thus reaffirmed INLAND's commitment to the situated production of knowledge, articulating artistic research, rural revitalisation and the strengthening of nomadic and pastoralist movements.

Transformative Territories: Performing Transition through the Arts is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.