Why CASI?
CASI in Spanish translates to “almost” in English and, in this context, it refers to something unfinished, in process, still to be completed. That is precisely where its meaning lies for us. Our emphasis is on the shared journey, the process in which we all actors engage, more than the final form or the final outcome.
CASI also embraces the concept that everyone can be “almost scientists” or “almost artists” in the process. Through curiosity, observation, experience, and the desire to understand. Knowledge is built in togetherness, collectively, and is bidirectional. We do not have passive spectators, or divisions between knowledgeable and learning participants. Everyone involved in each of the CASIs developed creates, contributes, and engages in a dialogue on equal grounds, sharing the responsibility and the intensity of building something together. Each resulting installation doesn’t belong to anyone; it belongs to all those who made it possible.
The collaborative propositions in CASI do not pursue immediate productivity, final answers or a fixed utility. They are non-instrumental, democratic spaces where art and science meet; they are tools for joint critical thinking, questioning and imagining. Because, sometimes, what seems least useful at first glance is precisely what allows us to better understand ourselves as a society.
What lays underneath?
CASIs are based on the scientific method and grounded on existing evidence generated through transdisciplinary collaboration.