ASPOROTSTTIPI
This former farmhouse houses an interpretation centre that will help you to appreciate all the riches and special features of the Domaine d'Abbadia and the Corniche Basque. The Domaine d'Abbadia's coastal rangers and the CPIE Littoral Basque's project managers will provide you with all the information you need to discover this protected natural site (map, documentation, programme of school events, guided tours, etc.). FREE ADMISSION
The main room is dedicated to showcasing the various points of interest on the site. Sound effects, educational animated films, projections and quizzes on touch screens allow young and old alike to discover the geological, fauna and flora riches of the site, as well as past and present human activities.
Upstairs, two rooms house the temporary exhibitions, which are accompanied by a rich programme of activities specially devised by the CPIE Littoral Basque (tours, lectures, screenings, etc.).
PROJECTS IN WHICH I PARTICIPATE
EMOTIONAL CARTOGRAPHY OF BIDASOA
This research and action project has been developed in tandem with the anthropologist and historian María José Noain and Bitamine Faktoria as an artistic collective. It was awarded a Ribera Grant from the Irun City Council. These grants are aimed at activating a permanent framework in the field of human sciences and art for projects whose object of study is the border territory, especially the Bidasoa river and its surroundings.
The participation of the community has been fundamental during the nine-month-long process of mapping the emotions linked to the Bidasoa region. Research and action have focused on interaction with local inhabitants through surveys, personal and group interviews, actions in the public space and workshops with primary school children.
In this way, the bibliographic research has been enriched with the collection of oral testimonies and personal perception about the river both in its symbolic and plastic dimension. The end result is a timeless polyhedral story in the form of a fold-out map that reflects the emotions shared by citizens. All in all, an artistic creation inspired by an active research into the emotional cartography of Bidasoa.
Emotional Atlas of Bidasoa
Atlas: A collection of maps, mainly geographical, presented in book or notebook form.
This project arises as a continuation of the research carried out thanks to the 2019 Ribera Grant awarded by Irun City Council, which was entitled "Emotional Cartography of Bidasoa".
The main idea revolves around the decision to carry out a practical mediation exercise on the contents researched. Not only to highlight different characters, events, hobbies, etc., but also to work on it in a transversal way with different artistic disciplines.
We are sure that research of these characteristics that deals with interculturality, in a border context at the moment we are living in, provides more plural results in the revision of many aspects of the historical memory of this territory. "In a time of globalisation, the most revealing object of study, the most questioning of ethnocentric or disciplinary pseudo-certainties is interculturality" (Canclini, 2006: 101). Interculturality is the tool with which we have to work for integration. Dialogue, in order to understand and accept our diversity as cultural richness and intangible world heritage, is the basis of our coexistence.
We have called it an atlas, because it presents a series of educational booklets combined with the work of the illustrator Elena Odriozola, highlighting relevant social aspects. Ten small notebooks that tell stories of a geographical space written in an elegant way by María José Noain Maura and with a language that is accessible to all kinds of audiences.
Texts: Maria José Noain Maura
Coordination and layout: Helga Massetani Piemonte
Ilustrations: Elena Odriozola
Traduction: Joxan Elosegi
LG D 00104-2022
2022
Bibliography
Web of Scientific Journal - Ausart 10
Massetani Piemonte, Helga. 2022. «Emotional Atlas of Bidasoa». AusArt 10 (2)