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The sound installation Aquacanta – developed in 2024 in collaboration with French artist/maker Hadrien Vénat – is presented as part of the 1^st edition of the Luxembourg Urban Garden festival.

Our touring exhibition Memo. Remembering the Futures is presented at Fondation Martell and is accompanied by a programme of workshops and events.

Consisting of an exhibition, and an accompanying programme of workshops, conferences and artistic residencies, Earthbound. Worms, Soil, Decay is presented at Bridderhaus.
with the support of the IF Export grant by Institut Français

A hands-on workshop during which, alongside a group of international creatives, we are co-creating the scenography and visual identity for the upcoming exhibition Earthbound. Worms, Soil, Decay produced by Bridderhaus.

As part of ongoing research on landscapes and anthropic perturbations, we’re conducting a 10-day field trip to explore the  slag heaps of Wallonia, Belgium.
with the support of the European Union‘s Culture Moves Europe grant programme

We’re giving a talk about our ongoing investigations as part of the doctoral seminar series “Recherche-Création” organised by Plateforme Art, Design et Société @ EnsadLab Paris.

3^rd session of a three-part online workshop we’re tutoring in the frame of the MA Curating Contemporary Design course at Kingston School of Art.

We’re giving a talk about our curatorial work at the  Architecture Department of the Università degli Studi di Ferrara.

2^nd session of a three-part online workshop we’re tutoring in the frame of the MA Curating Contemporary Design course at Kingston School of Art.

An updated version of our touring exhibition Plant Fever is on show at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden.

1^st session of a three-part online workshop we’re tutoring in the frame of the MA Curating Contemporary Design course at Kingston School of Art.

Stork Fiction is part of the Madrugada exhibition showcased at the Calheta Palace on the occasion of the 2^nd edition of the Lisbon International Biennial of Contemporary Jewellery.

We’re presenting our book Greenhouse Stories at Lake Como Design Festival during a conversation with journalist Laura Maggi.

Stork Fiction is screened at The Foundry as part of the For this Earth – Screendance Festival.

Aquacanta, a sound installation developed in collaboration with French artist/maker Hadrien Vénat, is presented as part of the 2^nd edition of the WaterWalls Festival.

Stork Fiction is screened at the Detroit Institute of Arts as part of the “Dance On Screen” film programme organised by the Detroit Dance City Festival.

We’re giving a talk at the Iceland University of the Arts (MA Design & New Environments) about our ongoing research on greenhouses.

Stork Fiction is part of the official selection of the 3^rd edition of the Manifest Dance-Film Festival and is screened at Alliance Française de Pondicherry.

26.06.2024
18:30

We’re presenting our book Greenhouse Stories at the Luxembourg Center for Architecture.

We’re presenting our book Greenhouse Stories during an event organised with the municipality of Sanem, where our research on greenhouses started in 2020; the event includes a special concert by Belgian performer Pauline Mikó.

Stork Fiction is part of the official selection of the 2024 edition of RAKSA Ciné-Danse Festival.

Second chapter of a residency (started in 2023) supported by Bridderhaus to carry out research on earthworms, soils and decay.

We are part of the collective publication Driving Design II published by Distributed Design Platform with an edited version of our essay “The Manifesto of Phyto-centred Design”.

Dessine-moi la Sûre is the title of a family workshop about water, dams and other-than-human rights that we’re tutoring as part of the  2^nd edition of the WaterWalls Festival.

04.05.2024
16:00

Stork Fiction is screened as part of Le Joli Mai, a monthly film programme organised by the French cultural association La Maison Composer.

Stork Fiction is part of the official selection of the Festival Videodanza de Puerto Rico and is screened in the old town of San Juan.

Stork Fiction is part of the official selection of the 11th edition of the ScreenDance Festival and is screened in Stockholm’s Dansmuseet.

17.04.2024
16:00–18:00

During Milan Design Week, we’re hosting a round table at the architecture bookshop & gallery Spazio to discuss about the potential of greenhouses as tools for community building. Guests: Alle Ortiche (Genova), Le Serre dei Giardini (Bologna).

We are giving a talk about phyto-centred design at the Burg Halle University of Art and Design.

13.04.2024
11:00–13:00

A conversation with Italian landscape architect Francesco Garofalo organised at the agrarian school Istituto Marsano, in Genova (Italy), as part of the Learning from the Present programme by Blu – Breeding and Learning Unit.

A 1-week workshop with the students of the agrarian school Istituto Marsano, in Genova (Italy), organised as part of the Learning from the Present programme by Blu – Breeding and Learning Unit.

ESSAY

“Cultivating a Selfless Future. What Agrarian Traditions Can Teach Design” published in issue n°39 of Belgian magazine TLmag.

RESIDENCY

Three-week production residency at atelier Modern Garage to work with French artist/maker Hadrien Vénat on our upcoming sound installation Aquacanta.

Stork Fiction is presented in the Almanach exhibition organised by Fondation Martell.

A 1-day talk & workshop with the students of the Design des Mondes Ruraux post-master programme organised by the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris.

We are giving a talk about phyto-centred design at the HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg.

We are invited to contribute to the Radical Coexistence lecture series organised by the Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst with a talk on the topic ‘Co-designing in more-than-human entanglements’.

A residency supported by the Bridderhaus to kickstart new research on earthworms, soils and decay.

We are part of an online symposium organised by the team of the Folkwang Universität der Künste in the frame of their multi-year research programme Sustainability by Design. Titled Design and the Plants' Learnings, our presentation focuses on plant-conscious design approaches.

Our touring exhibition Plant Fever is on show at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden.

28.10.2023
10:00–18:00

WORKSHOP

The 1-day creative writing workshop “Cut Off” invites participants to imagine anticipatory tales of dystopian, utopian, protopian futures in which greenhouses are used as tools to escape planet Earth.

27.10.2023
19:00–21:00

BOOK LAUNCH

Official launch of our new book Greenhouse Stories. A Critical Re-examination of Transparent Microcosms (Onomatopee – NL) during Dutch Design Week, in Eindhoven.

ESSAY

“Against Soil-less Life. How Industrial Greenhouses Are Disconnecting Us from Earth” published in the Australian online magazine Wonderground.

We are part of The Invisible Botany of Urban Spaces, a round table organised by Haenke at the Centre tchèque de Paris to “discuss how arts, design and natural sciences can collaborate in search for solutions to planetary challenges.”

We are part of the End of Design conference organised by Vienna Design Week with our talk Making Room for Change.

On the occasion of the 2023 Vienna Design Week, we are presenting the installation Room for Change, which features projects realised during the summer as part of The School of Phyto-centred Design x Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden.

Stork Fiction is part of the Coup de Chauffe festival organised by the l'Avant-Scène theatre.

As part of The School of Phyto-centred Design we are tutoring the workshop Curating Change, which “proposes to look at curation as an act of care and activism, a process through which we can shape meaningful worldviews…”

The School of Phyto-centred Design is a six-week workshop & lecture programme that we conceived for the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden and its School of Utopias. The programme features hands-on and theoretical activities and accompanies our touring exhibition Plant Fever.