SEMBRAR AIRE
We are an interdisciplinary
initiative committed to enhancing livable conditions
for human and more-than-human life in urban environments
for human and more-than-human life in urban environments
ABOUT
We are at the beginning of this journey, and we invite you to seed air with us.
How to seed air?
Alongside convening researchers, practitioners, and community actors, the project’s website serves as a platform for artists and interdisciplinary researchers working on the atmosphere and the urban environment. Additionally, the website functions as an archive and distributes open-access tools and DIY practices for citizen science.
Policy follows culture, and culture is shaped by stories. Our stories emerge from our experiences and assumptions about the world around us. We invite a shift in narrative: from viewing nature as a service provider for human needs, and toward recognizing it as the living force that sustains all life.
SEMBRAR AIRE is committed to restoryation*
Rather than distribute paralysing or shame-based narratives, we create and share empowering pathways for engagement and care. Dusts, often dismissed as nuisance or waste, hold multitudes of life—no less complex than our own human bodies. By changing how we speak about air, particles, and urban ecologies, we change how we act.
**Robin Wall Kimmerer; story + restoration
SEMBRAR AIRE brings together NGOs, grassroots associations, artists, and interdisciplinary practitioners whose work inspires, holds desire and passion for shared life and co-creation.
Through the exchange of resources,
knowledge and strategies, we create space for local complexities while finding solutions that can be implemented worldwide. Like sand composed of valuable minerals that travel each year from the Sahara to fertilize the Amazon rainforest, we begin small so our actions can travel further, last and multiply.
Particles are longing to be in relation.
Dust never travels alone.
SEMBRAR AIRE is dedicated to Carlos Machado, who tirelessly nurtures and plants mangrove trees in Isla Grande, Colombia. His commitment to giving back what nature provides—breathable air, clean water, and a thriving ecosystem—inspired our foundation.
SEMBRAR AIRE began during the Cité internationale des arts residency program
In situ 2025-2026 in Paris, supported by the Carasso Foundation.
Founded by Beatrice Zaidenberg
In collaboration with Adam Hudec
SEMBRAR AIRE is part of the Dusts Institute. Since 2021, the Dusts Institute has explored the urban environment by turning invisible actors (airborne particles, microorganisms and ruderals)
into protagonists.
Through interactive installations, public walks, art and architecture projects, the Dusts Institute engages diverse audiences and inspires action to address current environemntal crises.