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We all love an avocado, the star of every Sunday brunch, the wholesome fruit full of amino acids, the miraculous vegan alternative to a lot of animal products, the most instagrammable millennial food. But have you ever considered the impacts of global demand for this Mexican fruit?

Fernando Laposse

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The Harvest is a research-based workshop that invites participants to conceive and produce garments and accessories using raw plants – wild or cultivated – collected in the vicinity of Pillnitz Park & Palace. A special focus of the course will be the experimentation with straw, using different techniques, e.g. braiding, twining, spinning, crocheting, and weaving that Bruschi has explored over the years.

Emma Bruschi

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The workshop Greenhouse Grooves is an invitation to discover the world of plants from a sonic perspective and the world of sound from a plant perspective. There is an ocean of auditory stimuli that fall outside of our human hearing and that can open the path to new means of approaching the world, if only we could perceive them.

Passepartout Duo

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How can we develop deeper empathy and understanding of our more-than-human communities? Is it possible to de-centre human perspectives through our embodied experience when consciously inviting multifarious perspectives to our relational fields? Can embodied knowledges bring about more nuanced interconnectedness between our social selves and our local/​global ecologies?

Simone Kenyon

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What does it mean to curate a design project in the frame of Climate Change? What are our responsibilities as curators, researchers and designers? How can we participate in challenging old assumptions and build novel narratives that go beyond a purely human-centred understanding of the world? Curating Change proposes to look at curation as an act of care and activism, a process through which we can shape meaningful worldviews that take into consideration all beings and an instrument with which to raise critical questions and mediate issues linked to the current environmental and social crises.

d‑o-t‑s

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Following meadows, fields, and gardens, Weaving nettle tales explores borders of control opposed to symbiotic relations. How can we find a balance between extraction and returning gestures to the land and each other? How can we move from owning to owing? During the course, we will practise this balancing through making teas for the soil and ourselves. We will connect to local community gardens and research compost teas based on nettle traditionally used in many European rural households. Alongside making teas for the land, we will brew teas and ferments that nourish our own bodies based on ingredients foraged from local surroundings. Preparing and sharing these brewing routines of care will be central elements throughout the workshop.

ERBA

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