Vessels for Liminal Dialogues:

A Woven Sanctuary for Transformative Encounters

At the intersection of ancestral wisdom and contemporary urgency stands a living tapestry—a pavilion that embodies the profound concept of "Vessels for Liminal Dialogues." This structure emerges as a threshold space, a woven sanctuary where boundaries dissolve and perceptions shift. It is not merely built, but carefully interlaced—thread by thread, story by story—creating a container for conversations that exist in the in-between, in moments of transition and profound change.

The dome-like form of this vessel draws inspiration from nature's master weavers. Its pinewood frame, assembled through traditional joinery, preserves the forest's narrative, each grain a line in nature's own poetry.

Crowning this liminal vessel is a thatch of eelgrass, harvested and woven using techniques passed down through generations of women from Læsø. This living roof is not just a covering, but a connection—to sustainable practices, to ancestral knowledge, to the very waters that surround and sustain us. At the heart of the structure, a woven centerpiece of marsh reeds from the Venetian Lagoon rises in a vortex-like spiral, connecting earth and sky in a gesture of ascension and invitation.

Within this vessel for dialogue, rivers flow—not as mere images, but as living presences. The Vaupés and Orinoco bring with them the voices, stories, and ancestral cosmologies of collective communities. These river presences carry currents of knowledge and resistance, ecological intelligence, and relational time. They do not explain; they accompany, deepening the dialogue with the waters that shape our world.

This pavilion, as a vessel for liminal dialogues, is designed to hold space for conversations that transcend ordinary boundaries. It creates an immersive experience that encourages deep listening, fostering an environment where intercultural, intergenerational, and interspecies dialogues flourish.

Within these woven walls of the vessel, extractive ways of engaging with the world give way to tactile, multisensory communion with the non-human living world. The pavilion becomes a loom for weaving new rituals, a place of reciprocity and respect, and a shelter for reimagining relationships with the intricate web of life that sustains our planet.

This space is a living experiment in ethical dialogue and cross-pollination of knowledge. Here, Western and non-Western epistemologies intertwine, creating new paradigms of understanding. The vessel serves as a protected space for vulnerable conversations, exploring the contemporary potential of local resources and ancestral wisdom.

This woven vessel for liminal dialogues stands as a gesture toward healing, restoration, and reconnection. It is a space where new narratives of community and regeneration take shape, inspired by those who have maintained relationships of care and interdependence with their territories for millennia.To enter this woven architecture is to step into transformation. It is to engage in dialogue that transcends ordinary boundaries, reimagining spatiality as a ceremony of encounter—rooted in the Colombian high Andean forest, yet resonating with waters and wisdom from around the world.

In this threshold space, this vessel for liminal dialogues, one listens like eelgrass—fluid, rooted, and alive—to the stories woven into every fiber, becoming part of an ever-evolving tapestry of connection and understanding. This is not an object, but a pulse at the center of waters—a house of thought where perception transforms, extractive gazes soften, and the regenerative potential of dialogue unfolds.

The Liminal Vessel

A vessel born from longing—
a gesture toward holding without possessing,
toward weaving what listens.
Shaped by eelgrass: salt-weathered, flexible, ancestral.
A plant that roots in shifting ground,
a fiber that shelters remembers and yields..

At the center, a vortex rises—
woven from marsh reeds of the Venetian waters.
Lifted and luminous, echoing the architecture
of a ceremonial house of thought:
a heart-space, a gathering axis.

The reeds speak in vertical breath,
drawn from brackish water and centuries of quiet labor.
They have held roofs against storm winds,
Now, they spiral upward—not as walls, but as invitation.

A vessel for liminal dialogues,
where perception transforms.
Where extractive gazes soften,
giving way to reciprocity, reverence and repair.

Within, the Vaupés and the Orinoco rivers flow.
Not as images, but as presences,

Rivers of knowledge and resistance,
carriers of ancestral cosmologies,
ecological intelligence, relational time.
Their current does not explain.
It accompanies.

Trust in the regenerative potential
of intercultural, intergenerational, interspecies conversation.
Weave shelters of care,
ritual architectures that reimagine community,
restoring kinship with the more-than-human world.

Not an object.
A threshold.
A house of thought.
A pulse at the center of waters.

An invitation to reimagine spatiality
as a ceremony of encounter in the Colombian high Andean forest.

To listen like eelgrass—
fluid, rooted, and alive