CasaTierra emerged in 2015 from a prior and deeply rooted intuition: home is not a fixed place but a relational condition. It is not simply architecture or property, but the constellation of bonds, affections, actions, and temporalities that make it possible to experience belonging in the world. In this sense, home occurs; it is a verb before it is a noun.

 

This idea shifts the traditional notion of dwelling and expands it toward an ecological and plural understanding of existence. If home happens wherever relationships of care, memory, and coexistence are sustained, then the Earth itself can be understood as the only possible shared home—a living, fragile, interdependent system that exceeds every human boundary.
 

From this perspective, CasaTierra connects deeply with contemporary reflections on territory, nature, and coexistence in Colombia. It begins with the recognition that we inhabit an extraordinarily biodiverse and complex territory, one simultaneously shaped by historical violence, environmental conflicts, and multiple forms of coexistence between human and non-human worlds. Nature thus ceases to be an external “landscape” and becomes an active web of relationships that conditions the ways in which we live, feel, and organize society.
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CasaTierra approaches the idea that there are multiple ways of inhabiting and understanding the world, and that the human does not necessarily occupy the center of these configurations. The work also engages with perspectives that understand territory as a network of subjectivities, memories, and relational ecologies, rather than as an exploitable surface.

 

To inhabit means to constantly negotiate with other forms of life, with geological temporalities, water systems, climates, species, and materialities that also participate in the making of home. For this reason, in CasaTierra, home emerges as a dynamic and collective experience rather than an individual refuge. The “warmth” of home does not come solely from domestic intimacy, but from the possibility of sustaining relationships of continuity with the environment. Home occurs when there is reciprocity between bodies, territories, and ecosystems; when relationships allow for rootedness without domination.

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The work also introduces an important political dimension: if home is relational and plural, its destruction does not occur solely through the physical loss of a house, but also through environmental fragmentation, territorial dispossession, the rupture of community bonds, or the degradation of the ecosystems that sustain life. In this sense, CasaTierra proposes thinking of the ecological crisis as a crisis of inhabitation, and invites the question: what forms of sensitivity would be necessary for us to feel the Earth once again as a shared home?​​