Seeding Futures
In collaboration with Tiff Mak, Katinka Versendaal & Foo Ferments as part of the School of Survival programme at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, I was invited to document both the practice of fermentation and public participatory workshop.
Role: photography, workshop design
“‘Seeding Futures’ is a project that looked to explore the embodied connections between seeds and us through their physical materialities, ecologies and the stories that they hold. The act of ‘seeding’ carries both the meaning of sowing and preparing, as well as producing and dispersing. It is a gesture attending to and towards the future.
Like seeding, the practice of fermentation shares similar attention and intentions towards the future. It speaks to the temporality of how our present actions are shaped by our pasts, whilst simultaneously becoming entangled with our futures.
This project took place in collaboration with the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails project, calling for fostering collective and caring relationships between human and more than human actors to create sustainable, inclusive, and hopeful future perspectives. As a pilot city, Hamburg focuses on a regenerative menu created by selected fellows, exploring the impacts of extensive human interventions in nature and associated ecological changes on the Hanseatic foodscape.”
