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Bibi Calderaro is a Research Fellow at the City University of New York Graduate Center in the Urban Education department. A transdisciplinarian working internationally since 1995, she integrates art, education, and research to build ecological solidarity beyond the human. Her practice centers on participatory sensorial walks and collaborative projects with the Coastal Reading Group, exploring hybridity through decolonial frameworks and postphenomenological thinking.
- Sustainability Science and Education MA, The Graduate Center CUNY
- MFA in Social Practice, CUNY Queens College
- PhD Candidate, Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center
- Certified: Regenerative Social and Ecological Design (Omega Institute), Nature and Forest Therapy Guide (ANFT), Leave No Trace Leader (Wesleyan University)
Calderaro's research investigates urban ecosystem praxes in the Hudson River Estuary bioregion, emphasizing non-Western paradigms to integrate human and more-than-human relationships. Her methodology de-prioritizes sight through sensorial workshops, embodied walks, and collaborative storytelling that activate multi-sensory perception. Key projects like Walking as Ontological Shifter and Ravel~unRavel~revel transform perception through structured sensory deprivation and environmental engagement, challenging subject-object boundaries while fostering situated difference.
As an active Board Member of Holes in the Wall Collective’s Center for Creative Research, Reflection and Action, she develops initiatives including the C.A.R.E. Program for Environmental Justice. Her immigrant perspective from the Global South informs her work expanding urban ecology to include marginalized knowledge systems, with current focus on teacher-training programs connecting humanities and publics across the Hudson Valley bioregion.
