Crab's House

Making the Invisible Visible is a multi-layered, multi-format, multi-discipline communication campaign whose main aim is protection of underwater biodiversity. The main objective of the action is to translate complex scientific data into language understandable to a wider public in order to better understand environmental threats and the benefits of nature protection regulations. The campaign builds on the opportunities protection creates for ecological recovery and nature’s capacity to regenerate, while recognising the threats that can undermine its effectiveness: coastal construction, nautical tourism and sea traffic, rising sea levels, and overfishing. The backbone of the project is the naturally occuring Island-Trapped Waves phenomenon and the local and scientific communities working in tandem in order to instate a specific protection zone.

Crab’s House by Josipa Slaviček started in September 2025 with a presentation "Collect memories, not souvenirs" with students of Jelsa elementary school, which taught the 5th graders about the concept of no-take / leave no trace, the importance of not taking elements of nature and keeping the environment intact. In December the students visited the recycling plant in Svirče, where they learned about the recycling process and its relevance especially on the island. The final outcome, the environmental installation Crab's House, containing more than 200 CDs collected from around the island, captured children's wishes as it stood on St John's Square in Jelsa. The CDs, representing digital archives, are repurposed and transformed by the community into a spatial installation.