Since December 29th 2025, Terra Ignota – Nomadic Sub-Antarctic Laboratory is formaly registered as a non-profit organisation in Puerto Williams/Chile under the protection of the law 20.500.

We congratulate Federico Stäger on successfully bringing the Floating Laboratory out of the water. After a year of preparations, the vessel is now at the dock, where it will be repaired and equipped with scientific and artistic instruments that will enable navigation and research in the Cabo de Hornos archipelago.

The Cultural Agglomeration Zone (CAZ) project investigates the accumulation of cultural, historical, and environmental layers in Bahía Wulaia and Seno Ponsonby (in the Cape Horn archipelago), considering more than 7,000 years of occupation by seafaring nomads. In collaboration with the Austral University of Chile, the project will carry out an extensive study in the Ponsonby area during January and February 2026, with the aim of rethinking the current conception of human settlement in this territory and its historical interaction with the environment. Read more about the project here >>>

X Latin American Congress of Antarctic Science +
XII Chilean Congress of Antarctic Research
From 28 July to 1 August 2025

During the last week of July, Valdivia will host the X Latin American Congress of Antarctic Science (CLCA) and the XII Chilean Congress of Antarctic Research (CCIA), two key events for scientific knowledge about the white continent. Both will be held at the Nahmías building on the Isla Teja Campus of the Universidad Austral de Chile and are organised by the IDEAL Centre, the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) and the National Antarctic Research Council. The official inauguration will take place on Monday 28 July at 7pm at the Cervantes Theatre, and will bring together representatives from the academic, scientific and cultural world interested in the environmental dynamics of the southernmost part of the planet.

On this occasion, the transdisciplinary platform Terra Ignota has been invited to participate with an audiovisual intervention during the opening ceremony.

On July 18th, we presented the Terra Ignota platform along with several of our recent research initiatives at the Weltmuseum Wien. On this occasion, we also visited the museum’s depots—the collections of the Weltmuseum Wien comprise around 200,000 objects, of which only 1.5% are on public display. Accompanied by Claudia Augustat, curator of the South America Collection and member of the Terra Ignota team, we had the opportunity to conduct an in-depth exploration of the museum’s archives.

Date: 10 April 17:00 – 18:30 (CET)
Online on Zoom

How do mammalian abilities of hearing and sounding underwater adapt to marine environments? What interlinks cetacean sounds, seabed topographies and ocean structures? How do human-whale relations refract through maritime and coastal techniques? This talk sets these questions in dialogue with insights and discoveries from recent experimental hydrophone recordings in the Chilean sub-Antarctic archipelago of Magallanes.
Raviv Ganchrow is going to present Wahle Refractions at Interaction Design @ Zurich University of the Arts. See details >>>

The Faculty of Architecture and Arts at the Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh) will kick off its Academic Year 2025 with an inaugural event to be held on Wednesday, April 3, starting at 2:15 p.m. in the university’s Aula Magna. The event will feature Terra Ignota.
During the opening ceremony, the members of Terra Ignota, Nicolás Spencer, Florencia Curci and Iván Flores (Director Instituto Artes FAA, Chile), will present the talk ‘TERRA IGNOTA: Transdisciplinary research and creative methodologies’, in which they will share their experience in the exploration of innovative methodologies for the generation of knowledge in contexts of environmental and social change.
Later at 16:30 hours, Terra Ignota will carry out the intervention ‘Ecotono’ in the Emilio Pugin building of the Faculty of Science, a proposal that seeks to activate through vibrations the interstice between the Botanical Park and the building. Professors and students from both faculties have been invited to participate in this intervention, fostering an interdisciplinary dialogue between art and science.