Folkfarma

»Folkfarma« is a weeklong workshop that seeks to imagine and materialize new definitions of what health and well-being might be when it is thought of as a restorative and mutually beneficial relationship to the land.

Participants will gain a critical and regenerative perspective on material culture within the context of health and pharmacology, examining how issues surrounding the biopolitics and decoloniality of care are inextricably linked to local ecologies. Through experimental practices such as restorative foraging, DIY/DIT production techniques used in traditional healing practices, and by examining their own bodily relationships to the environment, participants will be invited to create new ways of folkfarming that focus on elements of the Karlsruhe bioregion.

In the workshop participants will be invited to position themselves as active co-researchers and to co-produce visions for co-healing and health commons. Alongside hands-on activities, short lectures, and site visits, instructional methodologies will focus on embodied researching and learning, referred to as ‘embodied trainings’, which stems from the facilitator’s own practice of making-with embodied knowledges. As an integral part of the facilitator’s own design research inquiry into the aforementioned themes, the work generated by participants will help form a chapter of a »Folkfarmacopeia«, showcasing participants’ unique visions around co-healing relationships to Karlsruhe and its environments.

A list of specific site visits, handouts, materials, and supplies will be sent to all registered persons.

Location
Local natural areas, HfG’s biolab and outdoor public space (according to potentially shifting corona measures)

Facilitated by
Serina Tarkhanian and hosted by HfG Biolab (Julia Ihls in collaboration with Barbara Kuon)