How can working with soil, plants and other species inspire us to create a more hopeful future? And what can design, art and activism teach us about living in closer relationship with nature?
In this session, you are invited to explore regenerative ways of living alongside artists, permaculture designers, land artists, compost enthusiasts and degrowth activists.
Through performative presentations and hands-on exercises, you will discover how collaborating with soil microbes, pollinators and plant life can open up new perspectives on community, care and sustainability.
Drawing on practices such as composting, beekeeping, gardening and urban landscape design, we explore how we can rebuild relationships between people, nature and the many species we share the world with. At the same time, we examine how creative practices can challenge the systems driving the climate crisis, resource extraction and biodiversity loss.
Here, degrowth is not about sacrifice or doing with less. It is about making room for new ways of living. Through artistic experiments and shared reflections, the session explores how care, creativity and ecological reciprocity can become driving forces for the societies of tomorrow.
Join us for an inspiring and thought-provoking session on how we can cultivate hope together – and create new ways of living that make room for both people and nature.
Participants
- Skye Jin
- Silje Eroy Sollien
- Oliver Maxwell
- Louise Krogh Hornbech Jensen
- Michelle Appelros
- Bilal Ahmad
Language: English
This session is part of the GRASP Open Call: Hope for the Future, curated by Kristine Samson, Michael Haldrup Pedersen, Maja Fagerberg Ranten and Mads Hobye, and presented by Roskilde University.