“Relationships are inefficient.

They take time. Time that can’t be predicted in an operational plan.

They are unwieldy, chaotic, ever...

ijzerzandsteen
meander maakt plaats
een nieuw been voor Aa

A screenshot of the video Maas Lab_polyphonic gathering_01 by David Martens. The collaboration agreement with the Maas as an equal partner in the...

Craft-woman Jeanny Bouwen introduced the ‘Irish basket weaving technique’: you push willow into the ground in a circle pattern and crisscross other...

What does designing mean? Could it be an essay (to try) in developing support structures enhancing living entities to co-exist? The image was sent by...

Sunlight shifting though her hair

A moment with Aa

Your swampy soil soft’ns
my dear disappearing feet
in sensing ripples.

There’s a Rumanian folk tale saying that on a certain day of the year, if a girl puts basil under her pillow at night, she will dream of her...

Introduction

What if the river was our teacher? Can we connect with our watery self? Can we learn to move, act or be like a river?

Can we unveil the biocultural potential of a landscape through collective herbariums and boiling pots? How can we ‘make’, with local plants?

How to use drawing as a way to question and train our ’gestures of making’?

How is walking a form of embodying ‘ecotones’ (transitional zones between ecosystems)? How do we weave together the stories of individual and collective pathways?