The Project SHS – Soil health surrounding former mining areas: Characterization, risk analysis, and intervention, involved the Instituto de Ciências da Terra (ICT), FCUP; the Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente (CERENA), FEUP; the Centro de Investigação em Química da Universidade do Porto (CIQUP), FCUP; o Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto (IS-UP), FLUP; and the Instituto de Investigação em Arte, Design e Sociedade (i2ADS), FBAUP. It was up to i2ADS to frame and promote these residencies, which happened in territories amidst Valongo, Pejão and Regoufe, chosen as SHS’s object. Such activity emerged from the understanding that artistic practise should be capable of producing other epistemologies, sometimes visionary and surely alternative, capable of complementing and confronting more scientific approaches, as were those of the project’s other intervenients.