Research / Awards
Fördermittel / Funding – Climate Future Lab: Open Planning Cultures
Fördermittel / Funding – Climate Future Lab: Open Planning Cultures
Inputs / Talks
Ayat Tarik bei Podiumsdiskussion zur Niedersächsischen Wohnungsbaugesellschaft
Ayat Tarik bei Podiumsdiskussion zur Niedersächsischen Wohnungsbaugesellschaft
Guests
Markus Bader (raumlabor berlin) im Gespräch mit Hanna Noller (Stadtlücken Stuttgart)
Markus Bader (raumlabor berlin) im Gespräch mit Hanna Noller (Stadtlücken Stuttgart)
Walk
What if Foraging was common(s)?
What if Foraging was common(s)?
Marina Resende Santos is an artist and researcher who lives in Berlin. Her work experiments with contemporary affects around technology, ecology, and agency, often in public spaces, using strategies from subversive affirmation to land interventions.
Foraging refers to the gathering of fruits, herbs, nuts, mushrooms... for food or healing. It has been practised for thousands of years, but colonialism continues to challenge this communal practice, traditionally carried out by women and indigenous peoples around the world, by banning it and transforming the once-harvested ingredients into agro-industrial commodities and pharmaceutical syntheses. Even today, in times of climate crisis, the protection of biodiversity is being used by neo-colonial powers to punish oppressed peoples and hinder their traditional ways of life.
On this walk we will reacquaint ourselves with the practice of foraging as a means of resisting these deadly dynamics. We will learn to identify some of the plants that can be found along the roadsides and in Braunschweigs green spaces, prepare a herbal tea and reflect together on how we can recuperate foraging as a common practice.
Situating this exercise within the Braunschweig context, we will solidarise with contexts of institutional oppression of foraging practices elswhere, and consider what historical developments and social sanctions limit these practices within the central German environment.
Termine
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Participation is limited to 20 people. This walk takes place as part of @tu.braunschweig @diversity.tubraunschweig