Re-Imagining Ecosystems

Luciana is an artist researcher whose work explores how imagination can transform our relationship with nature and a changing climate. Through her master’s degree project Re-Imagining Ecosystems (2024-25), she investigated how wonder—embracing the unknown as possibility—can become a bridge between humans and nature. Working with Hilbre Island as a site to explore this connection, Luciana developed tools that help to re-think and re-define our place within fragile ecosystems, offering new ways to cope, connect, and create space for life to emerge in uncertain times.

Focusing on Hilbre Island, a fragile archipelago off the Wirral coast, Luciana has spent 18 months in a slow residency, creating tools and collaborative experiences that invited visitors to re-think their place within vulnerable ecosystems. Historically, Hilbre has been gradually eroded by sea and wind, having reduced considerably in size on the past 2000 years. Recognised as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) since 1954, Luciana re-designated Hilbre as a Site of Special Human Interconnectedness (SSHI) in 2025. This new title highlights the entangled connections between people and nature, emphasising our shared responsibility in uncertain times. The works emerging from this residency offer ways to cope, connect, and create space for life to flourish, reframing ecological loss as an invitation to imagine new forms of coexistence.

During the course of the MA Art in Science, Luciana received funding as part of a multidisciplinary team to develop the event ‘The Ecologies of Hilbre Island’ for Being Human Festival 2024, developed 2 art exhibitions ‘What Does Nature Tell Us?’ (Liverpool, May 2024) and ‘Re-Imagining Hilbre, as a SSHI (Site of Special Human Interconnectedness)’ (Hilbre Island, Jun-July 2025), carried out 3 workshops (1 for Being Human Festival 2024 and 2 during April 2025), a collaborative display for the World Museum Liverpool (Jun-Sept 2024), a talk at Gladstone’s Library and an extensive body of artworks.