CRAFTING FUTURES

Immersive workshop, 2021
⭢ in collaboration with Foresta Seasonal Academy

“How can we begin to move towards ecological and cultural sustainability if we cannot imagine what the path feels like?”, asks Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’. Merging the poetic and the practical, we invite you to join the spring trail for envisioning and thinking your projects, rooted in embodied and embedded awareness, ecological imagination and hands-on practices with vibrant matter, where sensing, thinking and forming of forms is one process.

Trail description:
Everything is connected. Place — Plants — People. Recognising that we are part of the ecosystem — not separate — and by creatively reimagining what symbiotic relationships of local production and consumption might look like, we could go a long way as individuals and community to connect to Earth on a local, personal level.

Exploring possibilities of the overlooked local foraged treasures, on this trail, sensual and practical experiments were invoked to create woven objects by drawing metaphorical connections.

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Foresta Academy is an international learning community co-creating experiences dedicated to cultural transformation towards multi-layered sustainability mindset within the hybrid field. This work is rooted in values of ecosystems awareness, embodied culture, as well as art thinking and making. Based on resonances rather than institutional divisions, we are exploring new forms around questions how do we want to live, work and learn in more conscious, regenerative, and creative ways.

Concept and teaching by Evey Kwong
Curation by Sabina Enéa Téari, Foresta Collective