This second season of TESIS corresponds to territory, the lockdown led us to understand that the planet needed a rest, a breather, and we saw how nature reacted: beaches cleared, the air grew cleaner, and animals returned to reclaim territories that humans had taken from them, both in cities and on the outskirts; many migratory birds sang again, and animals that had stayed hidden out of fear of humans came out.
This second season of TESIS corresponds to territory, the lockdown led us to understand that the planet needed a rest, a breather, and we saw how nature reacted: beaches cleared, the air grew cleaner, and animals returned to reclaim territories that humans had taken from them, both in cities and on the outskirts; many migratory birds sang again, and animals that had stayed hidden out of fear of humans came out.
We understood that these spaces, these territories, are shared and that we have no exclusive claim over them; we became more attuned to sounds, to movement, to things as simple as a sunrise, a sunset, the rain, and we became far more aware of the value of plants and food; of the valuable work of farmers and their sacrifice to feed us, and of those who had the privilege of being in remote areas where the virus's presence or spread was almost nonexistent.
These two territories — the intimate, personal, or closest territory, and the expanded territory — gave us a different outlook on how we can manage space; every living being needs space in order to be, to grow, to reproduce, and to relate to others, and these spheres, personal, urban, and rural, are deeply interrelated. The whole planet is our common home; the balance we maintain between industrial production, the economy, ecology, education, politics, and the responsible use of natural resources is fundamental for survival. We can no longer think that economic gain can be the primary objective, nor that accumulating land or exploiting it to exhaustion, along with water sources, is justification for enrichment.
The balance and the relationships woven between the intimate family space and the broader social space are fundamental to the life of all species, not only the human species.