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Date:
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Time:
6:30 pm
Location:
The Kampong (4013 S Douglas Road Miami FL 33133)
Please join us for the first installment in the 2025 Symbiotic House lecture series at The Kampong featuring Cris Bouza. For more information on future lectures, visit the Symbiotic House page.
Cris Bouza is passionate about agroecology as a way to feed people, regenerate ecosystems, & connect to ancestral lifeways. With Caribbean roots, Cris was born & raised on the Tequesta lands of South Florida. After a 10 year career as a Chef/Restaurateur in Brooklyn, Cris felt frustrated by social & food injustice, and left NY in 2017 to follow the call to grow food and reconnect to their roots. Their work now is focused on cultivating community sovereignty & resilience; and facilitating connection & relationships back to land. In 2019 Cris co-founded Finca Morada, a half acre educational community space that has hosted 100s of workshops; is a working model & hub for climate resilience, & is an urban food forest of over 200 diverse varieties of edible, medicinal, and native species, located in North Miami.
Cris is an Alum of the MesoAmerican Institute of Permaculture, Soul Fire Farmer Immersion, Yale Tropical Forest Restoration & Agroforestry Program, Florida Master Naturalist Program, Syntropic Agroforestry Programs; and has a Bachelor’s Degree from Berklee College.
When Cris isn’t facilitating workshops or tending to the land, they are also a professional musician and artist.
A forum for open and participatory research, the Symbiotic House lecture series is organized by Miami-based artist Lee Pivnik as a means of gathering artists and designers that are working at the edges of architecture to share how their practices encourage ecological mutualism through design. Read more about the series.
Presented by: The Benjamin & Gloria Joannou, Jr. Family Conservation Fund
