Workshop at the farm La Divina Papaya, Kayambi territory, Ecuador. Credit: Mateo Barriga SalazarThis event heralds the next Soil Assembly – Tinku Uku Pacha, to be held in May 2025 in the indigenous farming community of La Chimba in Olmedo, Ecuador, home to important historical women leaders from the Andes. Launched in 2023 at a first assembly organized during the Kochi Biennale in Kerala, the Soil Assembly initiative is an emerging network promoting soil knowledge, biodiversity conservation, permaculture and food transition in formal and non-formal art and design education.
The event will feature an online presentation of the Ecuadorian assembly Tinku Uku Pacha by its general curator Pedro Soler (online), introduce Laboratory Planet journal #6 – Planetary Peasants which elaborates on some of the experiences, reflections and investigations gathered within this network, and open a discussion with local guests, Soil Assembly initiators and the audience. The event will conclude with a culinary experience proposed by Eat artist Maya Minder.
The gathering is also an opportunity to launch a crowdfunding campaign to support the Ecuadorian organizational community and the preparation of a dedicated Spanish-language edition of The Laboratory Planet, which will then be distributed at the COP30 climate conference in Belem, Brazil, in November 2025.
With Zone2Source, Genomic Gastronomy, Ewen Chardronnet, Maya Minder, Pedro Soler and more.
This event is supported by the More-Than-Planet program, co-funded by the European Union.
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