Pedro Soler: “During the Soil Assembly, we explored how the natural world has an agency of itself.”
Interview with Pedro Soler, main curator of the Soil Assembly #2, which took place in La Chimba, Ecuador in may.
Articles
Embodied Defiance: Exploring Indigenous Dances as practices of Anti-Colonial and Ecological Reclamation
In the framework of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation, dancer Ghazal Ramzani travelled trough Europe to meet dancers, choregraphers, artists and philosophers involved in anti-colonial and ecological practices. Here is her report.
The 2025 map of summer camps in Europe (and beyond)
Makery is compiling a list of camps as natural as DiY, aimed at makers, hackers, bioartists, architects and other curious people. Follow the guide !
Frame Story: A Long-term Research in Bicycle Design
Frame Story is Atar Brosh's long term design project, which combines traditional hands-on craftsmanship with contemporary digital manufacturing technologies. 21 bicycles frames have been produced until now.
The Benjamin Netanyahu Research Laboratory: A Political Design Experiment in 3D
Atar Brosh's Benjamin Netanyahu Research Laboratory is a project of critical design, that explores the relationship between politics, design and technology within Israel's complex socio-political landscape.
Rewilding Cultures conversations: Observations on Permafrost
In the framework of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation, artist Jean Danton Laffert went to Greenland to develop his project "Observations on Permafrost". Report in photos.
Earth-Space and Place: Reimagining Law and Place in the Earth-Space Complex Systems
In her book, Elena Cirkovic proposes an exploration of the law-making paradigm for complex interactions between the Earth system and outer space in the Anthropocene era. Here are exclusive reading notes.
The Politics of Symbiosis
We discuss here the discovery, the different understandings and their political meanings of the symbiosis phenomena through times.
Roscoffensis I/O: on exploring our becoming Homo Photosyntheticus. Artistic research in the footsteps of the Roscoff worm and Lynn Margulis
Roscoffensis I/O by Miha Godec and Roscosmoe Lab was showcased at OSMO/ZA during the Expedition to Public Outer Space in Slovenia, 27-30 Nov 2024. The project combines photosymbiosis and artificial intelligence to care for S. roscoffensis worms.
Feral Living through Poetic Immersion in the Satoyama
Here, Leila Chakroun shares her experiences of a stay in a japanese satoyama, and her thoughts on an agro-ecological future inspired by it.
Building the archipelagos of the future at Island School of Social Autonomy
Report by Klara Debeljak on a collective action of Island School of Social Autonomy on the Island of Vis (Croatia) to build new ways of living together.
A fairy tale or a true possibility: traveling long distances by land and sea as a substitution for flying
Artist Johanna Sulalampi surface travelled from Finland to Cologne on a two-night trip. A realistic alternative to flying? In this text, she explores the opportunities of sustainable travel.
Underground subsistence: Feeding beings in the Andes of Ecuador
In Ecuador, in the face of violent land grabbing practices, the Andean population is resisting by safeguarding ancestral practices for their food survival.
Tinku Uku Pacha in Ecuador: towards a second Soil Assembly in 2025
Tinku Uku Pacha, the next international meeting dedicated to art, soil and indigenous knowledge, will be in Ecuador's upper La Chimba valley, at the foot of the magnificent Cayambe volcano.
Human-flamingos, queer pokemons and other unique creatures at the BioFeral camp in Crete
The latest camp in the BioFeral.BeachCamp series of Ionian University's Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence program was held in Crete at the end of September. Lynn Hagan immerses us in the queer world of the organizers and participants of this decidedly feral lab.
Composing in Lapland, where the landscape becomes a verb
In July 2024, Johanna Ruotsalainen went to Sápmi for an art residency. With the support of Projekt Atol and its Mobility grant, she travelled through Finland, Sweden and Norway, encountering the landscape and its musicality.
Feral Circuits: Rewilding electro-cultures at HomeMade 2024
Reflections on a journey to the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society’s Homemade summer camp from July 27 to August 4, 2024 by Miranda Moss, laureate of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant.
“It takes the whole region to make the city”: territories, ecosystems and populations by Patrick Geddes
“Learn by doing”, "Think local, act global": P. Geddes (1854-1932), biologist, sociologist and urban planner, thought up the relationship between town and country and reinvented city planning.