Navigating with the visual stories

The day after presenting the research and visual stories in Murcia, we embarked with Turismo Marinero to sail our beloved lagoon with twenty people, local actors, who accompanied us. In addition to enjoying tremendously the compendium of knowledge offered by fishermen and technical biologists experts in the lagoon (we highly recommend it, for all audiences!) we ate the best prawns of our lives, freshly caught in the Mar Menor.

After enjoying a shared meal at the Fisherman’s Home, we moved to the Sea Museum to share the stories with the local people. It was a very emotional collective experience, since the stories mobilized strong feelings in them. We were able to talk about the pain and sadness felt by the Mar Menor crisis, and hear firsthand stories of migrant workers from the countryside, invisible in current debates about the lagoon. We took away many reflections about the power that visual language has and the responsibility that that power entails.