Transparent Eyeball is a transdisciplinary collaborative practice steered by artist Adam Vackar together with biologist Jindrich Brejcha, supported by experienced administrator Bara Panikova. Our practice at the intersection of visual art and biology, with overlaps in botany, anthropology, landscape architecture, geology, and philosophy, aims to explore new paradigms of knowledge based on the understanding of the biological perspective of life and existence for both non-human species and humans. The fascinating processes underlining non-human life can contribute to better understanding of human existence, behavior and culture. We engage audiences with discussions, talks and exhibitions.

A Conversation at Pratt Institute: Practicing Resilience

📍 Pratt Institute
🗓 Saturday, October 4, 2025
🕒 3:00–5:00 PM
📌 Meet at Pratt Main Building, 207 Ryerson St, Brooklyn, NY 11205
📞 On-site contact: +1 347 730 3139
🔗 For RSVP click here

We are excited to invite you personally to the first event of our Festival Sensing Change, organized in collaboration with Art/Switch.

On Saturday October 4, 2025, we are hosting an intimate and conversational roundtable at Pratt Institute. The theme is Practicing Resilience: a cross-disciplinary gathering of artists, architects, designers, and researchers exploring the theme of resilience and adaptation as method, metaphor, and lived reality.

In this open exchange, a small group of participants will share how they engage with resilience in their practices, whether through ecological design, invasive plant systems, regenerative architecture, or visual poetics. The conversation will span biology, art, architecture, and environmental science mapping how systems respond to pressure, disturbance, and transformation.

What does it mean to build, think, and create with resilience today? Can resilience be more than recovery, can it be resistance, reinvention, or reorientation?

We will have a featured keynote by Rafael de Balanzo Joue (Pratt Institute) — Architect, researcher, and founder of Resilience Thinking Design Studio. Other presentations will include Enrique Lanz Oca (Pratt Institute), Adam Váčkař (Artist, Transparent Eyeball), among others.

Rafael de Balanzo Joue is an architect, researcher, and founder of Resilience Thinking Design Studio, a collective bridging innovation and sustainability across continents. A Fulbright Specialist (2025–2028) with a PhD in Sustainability, he directs the Pratt Barcelona Program and leads the Pratt Earth Public Sphere initiative, with current projects for the 2026 Barcelona World Architecture City. As Adjunct Associate Professor at Pratt Institute, he teaches sustainability, resilience thinking, and regenerative design, focusing on the dynamics of social, ecological, and technological systems.