The Polder Lab project

As climate change becomes an increasingly oppressive reality, we can learn from nature to understand how to address this global crisis. Migratory birds travel from south to north and back again between their winter and summer habitats. They depend not only on these two locations, but also on the territories along their migration routes, which can extend for several thousand kilometres.

We believe that following these migrations and connecting the Prosperpolder Belgian Dutch border wetlands with the Mediterranean wetlands of El Hondo in Spain can offer a unique journey for artists, academics, naturalists and researchers to understand more fully the scale and impact of climate change across Western Europe.

To create this opportunity, the Milena Principle and the Locative Media Supercluster NGO are working together with networks of international artists, naturalists and local communities to create the conditions for such encounters, exchanges and research. The Polder Lab is therefore not a physical place or a single location, but a network of interconnected ecosystems stretching from the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea.