Taking us from field to foreshore, our 26/27 programme deepens our long-term and embodied relationship with sites and species across North Kent.
We will explore the systems that shape everyday concerns from food, housing and energy infrastructure, language, and the loss of agency and access to land around us. With local communities, we’ll be considering global issues, sharing knowledge and learning from the mangroves of Thailand to a rainwater basin in Berlin.
You’ll find us mapping waste and the legacies of material extraction, experimenting with traditional crafts and new bio-based materials to explore circular economies and build communal structures and new commons. Digging the soil and sifting sediment to propose alternative approaches to land stewardship, championing food and energy sovereignty. Coming together to witness ecological loss and navigating speech disfluency to explore the possibilities of language.
We continue to think big and work slowly, nurturing resistance, care, and learning.
Projects include:
Sensing Loss with Floating University Berlin & Three Rivers – Imagining new forms of resistance by witnessing ecological loss in the UK and Germany
Intertidal Allotment with Andrew Merritt – Creating a world-first shoreline community allotment on the Isle of Sheppey
A Year Long Feast: The Hoo Heddern with Cherry Truluck – Cultivating community-led stewardship of land and food on the Hoo Peninsula
Ebbsfleet Design Group with Flimsy Works – Changing the way we shape the built environment with young people, architects and designers
A Mouth In Search Of A Voice with Jamie Hamilton – Weaving together a tapestry of stammered voices in a new music and multimedia performance
Source To Sea (S > S) with Futurefarmers – Navigating the River Thames as a dynamic web of energies and relations
Intertidal Exchange with Chatpong Chuenrudeemol & Andrew Merritt – Exploring informal architecture and sustainable building practices through reciprocal residencies in the UK and Thailand
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