Coastal Kaleidoscopes
Coastal Kaleidoscopes is a tool guests can try out or build by them selves to engage bodily with the rhythms of nature. Through movement, stillness, and sensory attention, tides, wind, and light are not merely observed but experienced through the body. The dynamics of nature are made tangible as participants actively explore and feel its repetitions, transformations, and pulse.
Seeing the World Through a Kaleidoscope is a hands‑on workshop in which children and families construct Garcia’s Coastal Kaleidoscopes using simple tools and use them.
Walking with Waves
For Walking with Waves, Garcia has developed a walking staff capable of recording the sounds of wind, tidal flats, and the sea during the walk.
The individual sound recordings are collected into a wave score, which conveys a personal encounter between walker and landscape while contributing to a collective mapping of the sounds of the tidal area.
Walking with Waves is a performance and also a tool guests can try out or build by them selves.
David Garcia works at the intersection of architecture, art, technology, and society. His research‑based practice explores how architecture can respond to global challenges such as climate change, migration, and social transformation. He contributes with the performance Walking with the Waves and the participatory workshop Wave Kaleidoscope, which invite visitors into sensory, close encounters with the beach, the tides, and the waves.
BIO
David Garcia (b. 1970, Barcelona) is a practicing architect, educator, and researcher who lives and works in Copenhagen. He is trained as an architect from The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL in London and also holds a degree in art and theory from UAB in Barcelona.
He is an Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture and leads the international master’s programme Architecture and Extreme Environments. Garcia is the founder of David Garcia Studio (MAP Architects), which operates at the intersection of art and science with a focus on design in demanding environments. He has represented Denmark at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012, 2016, and 2023, and in 2020 he received the UIA’s International Prize for Education and Innovation. In addition, he lectures and exhibits internationally.