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Tres Comunidades, Un Río: Supporting Urban Amazonian Floodplain Communities Through Data and Art

Leann Andrews, Alexandra Jhonston Vela, Xiomara Valdivia Zavaleta, Jorge A. Alarcón Piscoya, Gemina Garland-Lewis, Kathleen L. Wolf, Ursula Valdez, Susana Cubas Poclin, Christian Ampudia Gatty, Carlo Tapia del Águila, Rebecca Bachman, Christina Flores, Clancy Wolf
The communities of Claverito, Bajo Belén (sectors 11&12), and Nuevo Belén in Iquitos, Peru, are understood to be co-authors of this project.



Abstract

In the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous communities have been living in river floodplains for millennia and have developed unique cultural connections with the living waters and their rich biodiversity. To escape hardship (e.g. over extraction of resources, slavery, climate change impacts etc.), or seek opportunities (e.g. health, education, economic etc.), hundreds of thousands of Indigenous people have migrated from the jungle to Amazonian cities such as Iquitos over the past hundred years. Referencing traditional lifestyles, many of these migrants created floating and stilted communities in the city’s floodplain edges. Their multi-generational knowledge of floodplain agriculture, amphibious housing, and deeply-rooted community structures provides cultural, economic, and ecosystem services to the whole city. However, this mass migration also created challenges in housing, infrastructure and public services for the whole city. The Iquitos regional government has responded by enacting mandatory relocation for these residents to new highland developments far from the river, threatening their unique riverine cultures and deforesting a rare white sand rainforest ecosystem. In this visual narrative, we describe a blended arts and sciences project, Tres Comunidades, Un Río: Life Within Peru’s Urban Amazonian Floodplains, in which a highly collaborative team of 24 Peruvian and U.S. researchers and artists worked closely with 136 residents across three communities to showcase their life, health, and environmental connections, promoting traditional cultures and better-informed city planning that includes Indigenous Amazonian voices. We describe our interdisciplinary arts and sciences mixed-methods approach which included a public health survey, documentary photography, community drawings, and biodiversity/environmental measures that incorporated a community training program and local/traditional-scientific knowledge exchange workshop. Lastly, we discuss the value we found in pairing data with artistic storytelling, engaging diverse disciplines and academic-community partnerships, and uplifting underserved communities via an art and data exhibition.

Impact Statement *

Using art (graphics, drawings, photographs) to amplify residents’ stories alongside biological and sociological data, this project engaged a wide range of collaborators, including residents with little or no formal education, local decision-makers, built environment practitioners, artists, academics, and activists. These collaborators created knowledge and networks to build local capacity for supporting residents with traditional roots within Iquitos urban planning decisions, and in turn supporting local to global One Health and ecological and cultural preservation.

Tres Comunidades, Un Río: Supporting Urban Amazonian Floodplain Communities Through Data and Art

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SIGNIFICANCE

Informal urban settlements around the world face multiple challenges that affect residents, local governments, and ecosystems. Transdisciplinary research and community participatory processes can help decision-makers make informed democratic decisions about complex problems that affect the future of communities (de la Peña et al., 2017). The use of data to bring attention to social or political issues and support social justice can be referred to as data activism (Lehtiniemi & Ruckenstein, 2019). Art and storytelling, combined with data, can provide knowledge that expands awareness of and support for underserved informal and Indigenous communities (Caxaj, 2015; Hammond et al., 2018).

“There is a need to bridge the arts with the sciences to fully address the social and environmental crises facing the planet. Transdisciplinarity can meet this need if certain barriers are overcome...” (Shrivastava et.al., 2022)

Context

To escape hardship (e.g. over extraction of resources, slavery, climate change impacts etc.), or seek opportunities (e.g. health, education, economic etc.), hundreds of thousands of Indigenous people have migrated from the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest to Amazonian cities such as Iquitos over the past hundred years. Referencing traditional lifestyles, many migrants created unique floating and stilted communities in the city’s floodplains. Their multi-generational knowledge of floodplain agriculture, amphibious housing, and close-knit community structures provides cultural, economic and ecosystem services to the entire city (Andrews, 2018), and may provide valuable models for global climate change adaptation (United Nations, 2022). However, this mass migration has also created housing and services delivery challenges. In response, government entities are enacting mandatory relocation of the 90,000 people now living in the urban floodplains to new modular public housing developments along a highway in the highlands. The expansive housing project threatens the unique riverine cultures as well as a rare white sand rainforest ecosystem that new developments are replacing.

This project examines three underserved communities in the city of Iquitos, Peru (Figures 1 and 2, Videos). Two communities are traditionally designed in the floodplain, and the third is the government relocation community in the highlands.

Figure 1. Landscape context of the city of Iquitos, Peru in the Amazon Rainforest, and the location of the three communities engaged in this project.
An aerial view of the city of Iquitos. It is surrounded by green (the Amazon Rainforest) and sits beside a wide, winding brown band that splits and merges (the Amazon River). The three communities in this project, Claverito, Baja Belén and Nuevo Belén are labeled with details.
Rebecca Bachman (2021) - Google Earth With Adobe Illustrator
Figure 2. The informal floating community of Claverito (left), a semi-formal stilted community within Bajo Belén (center), and the government relocation community of Nuevo Belén (right).
Three photographs. Left: a boy carrying water runs on a floating wooden path next to self-built floating wooden houses painted blue. Center: self-built wooden stilted houses surrounded by water with a boat below. Right: concrete modular houses surrounded by bare sand.
Gemina Garland-Lewis (2021)

Videos 1-5. Drone videos showing Claverito (Videos 1 and 2) and Bajo Belén (Videos 3 and 4) in the high and low river seasons, and Nuevo Belén (Video 5).

  • Video 1. The informal floating community of Claverito in the High River Season.
    Kevin Mauro Rodriguez (2021)
  • Video 2. The informal floating community of Claverito in the Low River Season.
    Kevin Mauro Rodriguez
  • Video 3. The informal community of Bajo Belén in the High River Season.
    Kevin Mauro Rodriguez
  • Video 4. The informal community of Bajo Belén in the Low River Season.
    Kevin Mauro Rodriguez
  • Video 5. The government relocation community of Nuevo Belén
    Kevin Mauro Rodriguez

An integrated approach

In alignment with One Health principles (OHHLEP, 2022), we used a mixed methods arts and sciences approach to explore and compare the social and ecological health stories of each community. Although initially designed as a transdisciplinary project, with Peruvian and U.S. team members integrating their disciplinary expertise while co-creating goals and methods together with community members, the COVID-19 pandemic affected travel and hindered close and group community contact, impacting co-creation goals. In the first year, local in-Iquitos Peruvian team members led biological and sociological measures with U.S. team members collaborating virtually, and U.S. team members joined in-person once flight restrictions eased up later in the project timeline. Community members were engaged in outdoor settings only, with strict COVID-19 protocols and adherence to the Peruvian government’s stay-at-home mandates. Professional team members took advantage of online platforms (e.g. Zoom video chats) to support collaboration during this time, both between the arts and sciences disciplines, and between U.S. and Peruvian teams. Ultimately, the accomplished project included transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research with community interactions (Figure 3).

Figure 3. Collaborations weaved in and out of multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary interactions.
A diagram with four colored lines squiggling from left to right and labeled Community, Public Health Science, Biological Science, and Photography. The horizontal space is labeled with phases of the project from May, 2020, to August, 2022. The lines move farther and closer together throughout the labeled phases of the project. Key moments where the lines come together are highlighted with black circles or squares to show the transdisciplinary or interdisciplinary connections (respectively) in the project.
Rebecca Bachman, Leann Andrews (2023)

Networked activities extended across two years. The academic team met bi-weekly to manage research activities, sharing disciplinary perspectives that helped craft multidisciplinary research methods [1] (Figure 4) and develop evidence-and-story-based products that collectively shared rich representations of the communities and their voices (see Shared Understandings section, below). Transdisciplinary activity, as represented by circles in Figure 3, included the following: Building on previous work with one community through the InterACTION Labs Program (described in Alarcón, Alarcón, & Andrews 2018), Claverito residents partnered in a “knowledge exchange workshop” with biologists (Figure 5), and community assistants participated in field work (Figure 6). Across all communities, adult community members completed health surveys, including a cognitive nature-connection drawing task. Results from the health surveys and the biological surveys in both high and low water seasons were used to guide photography in order to reflect as accurately as possible the natural and human environments of each community. Community members collaborated with the photographer to direct portraits in their identified home and lived landscapes. In this way, and because the photographer and science researchers all worked closely together from the start of the project, the resulting imagery was directly informed by both the data and by the perspectives and values of community members, with attention to artistic expression. All activities culminated in a one-month exhibition in a cultural museum in Iquitos, including an Opening Celebration and opportunities for community feedback (See Shared Understandings section, below). To build international momentum and support, the exhibition is also traveling and being hosted by institutions in other countries.

[1] Detailed research methods, analyses and outcomes of data will be outlined in forthcoming manuscripts.

Figure 4. Transdisciplinary goals and multi-disciplinary research methods inquiring into human-nature connections in each community.
A table with column headers: Primary Transdisciplinary Goals, Multi-Disciplinary Research Sub-questions, Team Composition, Method Description.
Project team (2023)
Figure 5. A knowledge exchange workshop used graphics and drawings to facilitate the dual sharing of scientific and local/traditional knowledge of plants and animals found in the community.
Community members and professionals sit and stand around a table, looking at a poster with drawings.
Alexandra Jhonston (2021)
Figure 6. Community members were trained and employed to join academic scientists in the field to document birds, butterflies, amphibians, and reptiles.
Three photographs. Left: a biologist and community member stare and point at the ground, surrounded by lush vegetation. Center: a community member looking through binoculars and a biologist with a notebook stand in a field next to a housing community. Right: a biologist and community member bend down in tall grasses; a housing community is in the background.
Ursula Valdez (2021)

Shared understandings

Tres Comunidades, Un Río is a blended arts and sciences exhibition showcasing life, health, and connections to the environment in urban Amazonian floodplain communities, in support of the inclusion of underserved and informal communities and traditional voices in the future planning of Iquitos. The exhibition opened at the Ministry of Culture’s Amazonian Museum in Iquitos, Peru in August 2022 (Figure 7), traveled to the Gould Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle in November 2023 (Figure 10), and is scheduled to travel to State College, Pennsylvania in 2024 and New York City in 2025. Physical and online versions act as self-advocacy platforms for residents to share information with decision-makers and build international support.

Figure 7. Tres Comunidades, Un Río exhibition at the Amazonian Museum in Iquitos, Peru.
Two photographs. Left: the entrance to an exhibition, with a statue of an Indigenous person and an easel in the foreground, and rectangular images displayed on fixed and standalone walls in the background. Right: the exhibition from the other side with people looking at the images on the walls.
Leann Andrews, Gemina Garland-Lewis (2023)
Figure 8. An excerpt “La Selva Ofrece” or “The Jungle Offers” from the exhibition in Iquitos showing the transdisciplinary outcomes that incorporated the activities and voices of all disciplines and community members in a larger storytelling advocacy statement.
A wall of the exhibition, showing circle data graphics on the left, three community drawings in the middle, and three portraits of community members and a photograph of fish and plantains on the right.
Gemina Garland-Lewis (2023)
Figure 9. The exhibition opening in Iquitos invited all community members to celebrate and share written and verbal thoughts with decision-makers and professional advocates.
Three photographs. Left: a biologist points to exhibition images on a wall as community members stare intently. Center: a group of community members standing in line to write their feedback on a flipboard at the exhibition. Right: a group of community members and professionals watch a community leader with a microphone at the exhibition opening.
Team (2023)
Figure 10. The exhibition opening in Seattle stimulated a scholarly discussion around transdisciplinary arts and design research and built international networking and support for the communities and issues showcased.
A crowd of people stand in a formal gallery looking intently at imagery on the walls. A video screen playing birdseye images of green fields and houses is in the foreground.
Harley Pan (2023)

discovery

A. Enhanced understanding from blending the arts and sciences

When analyzing data, the team found substantial biodiversity and ecosystem function in all communities, despite the floodplain communities lacking waste management infrastructure. The team also found that - despite relocation justifications of increased security, safety and wellbeing - quantitative comparative analysis showed few statistical differences between informal floodplain and planned government communities. Artful storytelling explains why. Photos and cognitive mapping drawings revealed that residents placed value on reflective and productive time in nature. They hold strong cultural, emotional, and economic connections to the river, even those living in the relocation community an hour away from the river. Traditionally designed settlements center life around community and familiar ecosystems, while supporting individual needs. Paired with the photographic portraits, the cognitive mapping drawings prepared by residents were important hand-crafted insights into daily interactions with nature both within and around the communities (Figures 11 and 12).

Figure 11. Portraiture displayed the value that residents in all three communities placed on social, reflective, and productive time in nature, and especially the river and its floodplain.
Two photos. Top: a man sitting on the end of a boat stares contemplatively at the river. He is surrounded by reflective water and floating vegetation. Bottom: a smiling mother stands on a floating wooden board, holding a small child. To the left, two children paddle a canoe.
Gemina Garland-Lewis (2021)
Figure 12. Cognitive mapping drawings by community members showcase boats, fish and references to the river, showcasing deep connections with the river and its floodplain in all three communities (including the relocation community).
A collage of black and white drawings. Most drawings show boats, fish, and references to the river.
Community members (2021)

B. Rich stories developed from university-community partnerships

The exhibition captured the intimate details of residents’ cultural pride, connections to nature, and unique riverine lifestyles. Presenting images of daily life alongside animals and plants documented in these communities showcased the ecological, cultural, and economic contributions that these communities provide to the region (Figure 13).

Figure 13. Photographs showcased the ecological, cultural, and economic contributions of these communities (top two). Data analysis interpretations and graphics documented the presence of animals and plants in the communities and displayed data in a publicly accessible way (bottom).
Three images. Top left: a woman in colorful Indigenous printed clothing cooks chicken and plantains on a grill outside her house with her extended family seated at a table in the background. Top right: two hands work a fishing net with a yellow and silver fish caught in it. There is vegetation in the background. Bottom: data graphics showing biodiversity pie charts of plants, birds, butterflies, and amphibians and reptiles.
Gemina Garland-Lewis, Christina Flores (2022)

Residents expressed deep emotions seeing the presentation of their lives “as they are” in an art form and with academic elevation in public (Figure 14). At the opening, one resident from one of the study communities wrote (translated from Spanish),

“By reencountering our values, showing our culture, rooted in our ancestors, I am hopeful that this exhibition will successfully [spark] a little more consideration of our needs in all aspects.”

In addition, one visitor wrote in the exhibition journal (translated from Spanish),

“I feel that the exhibition shows a reality that Peruvians sometimes do not know or leave aside and that thanks to this context allows us to understand the behavior and vision of the Indigenous people in Iquitos.”

Such comments showcase the centrality of art to the project by providing a universal, visual medium to convey important findings to broader audiences.

Figure 14. Residents of the three communities next to their portraits in the Iquitos exhibition.
Four photographs. Each shows a resident next to a portrait of themselves displayed in the exhibition.
Gemina Garland-Lewis (2022)

C. Collaboration dynamics

Transdisciplinary projects from start to finish can be difficult to achieve, as engaging diverse epistemologies often takes extra time and management efforts. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this challenge. Ongoing adaptations in the project required immense flexibility and creative problem solving to meaningfully engage and present results in a unique community-supporting product. Reliance on Iquitos professionals and community members, remote communication tools (e.g. Zoom, Jamboard), and strict COVID-19 protocols were critical to project progress.

While the Opening Celebration attracted many professional advocates within Iquitos, one disappointment is that, despite personal invitations, few decision-makers attended. Engaging decision-makers and advocates may require more time. The team will continue to present the stories, results, and community voices to attempt to engage local decision-makers and build public momentum.

reflection - GRATITUDE, DIGNITY, AND TRUST

Mutual trust is the cornerstone of success in university-community partnerships and creating knowledge in common. Our team prioritized trust building and sustaining a “give and take” balance above all other goals. Data results, a typical science project product, was but one of the resources shared with the community. Each resident who was photographed received a framed print, and communities were presented drone-produced aerial prints. The community science program was scaled back due to COVID-19, yet the program still provided economic resilience in a tumultuous time as community assistants were paid for their time and expertise. The Opening Celebration in Iquitos was crafted to elevate traditional cultures and honor community (Figure 15), and residents were provided transportation to attend. Participants’ voices were captured in their own words and drawings, and data and supporting graphics were carefully crafted to break down science communication barriers.

Figure 15. The Opening Celebration in Iquitos elevated traditional food and music and invited community members to celebrate alongside authorities, researchers, and artists.
Three photographs. Left: two wait staff in burgundy vests stand by platters of appetizers on a table. Center: a band with drums, a recorder, and maracas. Right: a crowd of community members, authorities, and professionals enjoy the exhibition opening reception.
Gemina Garland-Lewis, Leann Andrews (2022)

This deeply intertwined research project stimulated a long-term university-community collaboration with three underserved communities in Iquitos, Peru. The research methods intentionally integrated community sourced art – photographs and residents’ cognitive mapping drawings – to add fuller dimension and representation of the communities in data reporting. The ongoing collaborative activities resulted in professional and personal relationships surrounding co-developed stories and understandings. All the activity culminated in a celebration of the traditionally developed and managed communities, shared satisfaction, and the production of valued products. For example, after the exhibition, one community requested signage to display the partnership and products (Figure 16). The project products will continue to be used to advocate for an authentic representation of the communities and to dispel local decision-makers’ and other Iquitos residents’ negative perceptions of informal and traditionally designed communities.

Figure 16. At the community’s request, community members and university students co-created a community sign highlighting the university-community partnerships and project outcomes.
Three photographs. Left: people painting a sign that reads “bienvenidos” (“welcome” in Spanish). Center: the welcome sign hangs on a tall pole with a small roof over it. A stairway with banister leads down from the sign. Right: two residents hang photographs from the exhibition at their community center.
Rebecca Bachman, Xiomara Zavaleta (2023)

References

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Andrews, L. (2018). Integrating human health, ecology and built environment design: A TDAR Gardens Intervention case study with an informal slum community in the Peruvian Amazon. [Doctoral Dissertation, University of Washington]. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/42985

Caxaj C. S. (2015). Indigenous Storytelling and Participatory Action Research: Allies Toward Decolonization? Reflections From the Peoples' International Health Tribunal. Global qualitative nursing research, 2, 2333393615580764. https://doi.org/10.1177/2333393615580764.

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Acknowledgements

Funding from EarthLab Innovations Grants Program at the University of Washington, Centro de Investigaciones Tecnológicas Biomédicas y Medioambientales (CITBM), Traction, Northern Pacific Global Health (NPGH) NIH Fogarty Global Health Program.

Supporting Materials

Additional Evidence of Impact links:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=783193646447129

https://diariolaregion.com/web/hoy-se-inaugura-atractiva-exposicion-fotografica/

https://earthlab.uw.edu/2023/12/exhibit-at-uw-explores-the-intersection-of-art-health-and-environment-in-the-peruvian-amazon/

https://www.psu.edu/news/arts-and-architecture/story/benefits-floodplain-communities-focus-stuckeman-professors-exhibition/



Contributors

 Leann Andrews†: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Production - Creative, Project administration, Reflective Analysis, Relationship Development Outreach, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Alexandra Jhonston Vela†: Formal Analysis, Investigation inquiry, Methodology, Production - Social, Relationship Development Outreach, Writing – review & editing
Xiomara Valdivia Zavaleta†: Investigation inquiry, Production - Social, Relationship Development Outreach
Jorge A. Alarcón Piscoya†: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal Analysis, Methodology, Reflective Analysis, Relationship Development Outreach, Writing – review & editing
Gemina Garland-Lewis†: Conceptualization, Investigation inquiry, Methodology, Production - Creative, Production - Social, Reflective Analysis, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Kathleen L. Wolf†: Conceptualization, Methodology, Reflective Analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Ursula Valdez†: Conceptualization, Formal Analysis, Investigation inquiry, Methodology, Production - Social, Reflective Analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Susana Cubas Poclin†: Conceptualization, Formal Analysis, Investigation inquiry, Methodology
Christian Ampudia Gatty†: Conceptualization, Formal Analysis, Investigation inquiry, Methodology
Carlo Tapia del Águila†: Conceptualization, Formal Analysis, Investigation inquiry, Methodology
Rebecca Bachman†: Formal Analysis, Production - Creative, Production - Social, Reflective Analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Christina Flores†: Formal Analysis, Production - Creative, Visualization
Clancy Wolf†: Production - Technical, Production - Creative, Resources, Visualization
The community of Claverito, Iquitos, Peru: Investigation inquiry, Production - Creative, Production - Social, Relationship Development Outreach
The community of Bajo Belén, sectors 11&12: Production - Creative, Production - Social, Relationship Development Outreach
The community of Nuevo Belén: Production - Creative, Production - Social, Relationship Development Outreach
Benito Pinedo Flores: Investigation inquiry
Euclides Vargas Malafay: Investigation inquiry
Hermógenes Rengifo Siquihua: Investigation inquiry
Juan Noa Tuanama: Investigation inquiry
Julia Amias Grandez: Investigation inquiry
Liderson Valles Torres: Investigation inquiry
Micher Curinuque Murayari: Investigation inquiry
Claudia Rios: Investigation inquiry
Edwing Olortegui Ramos: Investigation inquiry
Estrella Miah Velasquez Ruiz: Investigation inquiry
Francisco Javier Farroliiay Pacaya: Investigation inquiry
Lindher Watson Villacorta Mor: Investigation inquiry
Andrea Linares Gui: Investigation inquiry
Claudia Moscoso Villena: Investigation inquiry
Evita Vera Gonzales: Investigation inquiry
Iris Del Aguila Yahuarcani: Investigation inquiry
Jasmina Oroche Santillan: Investigation inquiry
Mishell Coral Ramirez: Investigation inquiry
Kevin Mauro Rodriguez: Investigation inquiry

Roles

 Conceptualization: Leann Andrews†, Jorge A. Alarcón Piscoya†, Gemina Garland-Lewis†, Kathleen L. Wolf†, Ursula Valdez†, Susana Cubas Poclin†, Christian Ampudia Gatty†,, Carlo Tapia del Águila†.
Funding acquisition: Leann Andrews†.
Methodology: Leann Andrews†, Alexandra Jhonston Vela†, Jorge A. Alarcón Piscoya†, Gemina Garland-Lewis†, Kathleen L. Wolf†, Ursula Valdez†, Susana Cubas Poclin†, Christian Ampudia Gatty†,, Carlo Tapia del Águila†.
Production - Creative: Leann Andrews†, Gemina Garland-Lewis†, Rebecca Bachman†, Christina Flores†, Clancy Wolf†, The community of Claverito, Iquitos, Peru, The community of Bajo Belén, sectors 11&12,, The community of Nuevo Belén.
Project administration: Leann Andrews†.
Reflective Analysis: Leann Andrews†, Jorge A. Alarcón Piscoya†, Gemina Garland-Lewis†, Kathleen L. Wolf†, Ursula Valdez†,, Rebecca Bachman†.
Relationship Development and Outreach: Leann Andrews†, Alexandra Jhonston Vela†, Xiomara Valdivia Zavaleta†, Jorge A. Alarcón Piscoya†, The community of Claverito, Iquitos, Peru, The community of Bajo Belén, sectors 11&12,, The community of Nuevo Belén.
Supervision: Leann Andrews†, Gemina Garland-Lewis†, Kathleen L. Wolf†,, Ursula Valdez†.
Visualization: Leann Andrews†, Gemina Garland-Lewis†, Rebecca Bachman†, Christina Flores†,, Clancy Wolf†.
Writing – original draft: Leann Andrews†.
Writing – review & editing: Leann Andrews†, Alexandra Jhonston Vela†, Jorge A. Alarcón Piscoya†, Gemina Garland-Lewis†, Kathleen L. Wolf†, Ursula Valdez†,, Rebecca Bachman†.
Formal Analysis: Alexandra Jhonston Vela†, Jorge A. Alarcón Piscoya†, Ursula Valdez†, Susana Cubas Poclin†, Christian Ampudia Gatty†, Carlo Tapia del Águila†, Rebecca Bachman†,, Christina Flores†.
Investigation and inquiry: Alexandra Jhonston Vela†, Xiomara Valdivia Zavaleta†, Gemina Garland-Lewis†, Ursula Valdez†, Susana Cubas Poclin†, Christian Ampudia Gatty†, Carlo Tapia del Águila†, The community of Claverito, Iquitos, Peru, Benito Pinedo Flores, Euclides Vargas Malafay, Hermógenes Rengifo Siquihua, Juan Noa Tuanama, Julia Amias Grandez, Liderson Valles Torres, Micher Curinuque Murayari, Claudia Rios, Edwing Olortegui Ramos, Estrella Miah Velasquez Ruiz, Francisco Javier Farroliiay Pacaya, Lindher Watson Villacorta Mor, Andrea Linares Gui, Claudia Moscoso Villena, Evita Vera Gonzales, Iris Del Aguila Yahuarcani, Jasmina Oroche Santillan, Mishell Coral Ramirez,, Kevin Mauro Rodriguez.
Production - Social: Alexandra Jhonston Vela†, Xiomara Valdivia Zavaleta†, Gemina Garland-Lewis†, Ursula Valdez†, Rebecca Bachman†, The community of Claverito, Iquitos, Peru, The community of Bajo Belén, sectors 11&12,, The community of Nuevo Belén.
Data curation: Jorge A. Alarcón Piscoya†.
Resources: Gemina Garland-Lewis†, Clancy Wolf†.
Production - Technical: Clancy Wolf†.
† denotes by-line credit.

Ongoing

 Since June 2020

Website:

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Sites and Institutes

 Museum Amazonicas, Ministerio de Cultura de Perú
Gould Gallery, University of Washington
Borland Project Space, Pennsylvania State University
College of Arts & Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University
Departments/Schools of Environmental and Occupational Health, Landscape Architecture, Public Health, Environmental and Forest Sciences and Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences-Bothell, University of Washington
Fogarty Global Health Training Program, National Institutes of Health

Keywords

 Traditional Communities Community Collaboration Arts Integrated Research Amazon Rainforest Indigenous Knowledge Systems Interdisciplinary Transdisciplinary

Disciplines

 Landscape Architecture Biology Social Sciences Anthropology Photography Community Development Public Health Global Health Ecology Environmental Psychology

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