Since July 2025, Daria has been working as a curator-researcher for the NODA Art Trail in the Mafra region, Portugal, where she is developing the conceptual framework for a regenerative open-air art trail. Conceived as an evolving landscape-based exhibition, the project explores entanglements between humans, more-than-human beings—including animals, plants, fungi, and natural forces—and emerging technologies. Selected artists are invited to develop site-responsive artworks that engage directly with the surrounding environment through a range of artistic approaches, including nature-powered artworks, biotic interventions, time-based or ephemeral works, augmented landscapes, ritual or healing environments, community-made and co-evolved projects, and sculptural works created from local materials. The trail is conceived not as a linear route but as a nodal structure, where intersections between ecosystems, communities, histories, and artistic practices emerge.
The trail integrates several distinct but interwoven layers:
  • Historical — engaging with the memory and heritage of the place, from past communal uses to its evolving stories.
  • Geographical & Territorial — embracing the surrounding nature, landscape, and specific location as integral to the project’s identity.
  • Cultural — reinterpreting traditions, narratives, and artistic languages to connect local contexts with international resonance.
  • Ecological / More-than-Human — developing sustainable practices and artworks in which natural forces and living beings are co-authors and co-creators.
  • Technological / More-than-Human — exploring how AR, VR, AI, sensors, robotics, and renewable energy systems can collaborate with natural processes, creating hybrid artworks that give voice to unseen flows of data, energy, and ecological rhythms.
  • Architectural — incorporating structures and interventions that guide, shelter, or expand the visitor’s journey without overpowering the landscape.

At once a valley of art and a portal to other worlds, the trail positions the territory itself as an independent, self-valuable artwork—a living organism in continuous transformation. It is a point of cross-pollination, a place of presence and processes, an environment that resonates internationally while remaining deeply rooted in its own soil.
At once a valley of art and a portal to other worlds, the trail positions the territory itself as an independent, self-valuable artwork—a living organism in continuous transformation. It is a point of cross-pollination, a place of presence and processes, an environment that resonates internationally while remaining deeply rooted in its own soil.
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