Winter in Europe is typically a season of rest and reflection — for people and for plants. Embracing dormancy. Protecting life below ground. Gathering knowledge and resources in readiness for when the soils thaw.
We invite you to gather with us in the dark, quiet of winter for a series of public lectures and conversations exploring the intersections between art and ecology. Conceived as a shared pause rather than a pause in thinking, these sessions nurture intellectual and sensorial capacities, while we wait for spring’s abundance.
In this time of violence and crisis, we need gardens for commoning across disciplines and distance, to grow our collective imagination and resistance. Bringing together artists, designers, scientists, researchers, and educators who think with plants in their practices and communities, Seeding Kinships is a space for exchange and solidarity between people from multiple fields and geographies, with the spirit of: what is the knowledge that can be generated in this moment with these people?
Across the sessions, we will hear from experts researching and rehearsing other ways of relating to the living world — ways attuned to biodiversity, grounded in place, and capable of shifting decision-making to better support climate and social-ecological interdependencies.