The Greenhouse Art-Lab
Over the last 6 years, the HAC greenhouse has been hosting various teaching and outreach activities. Today, we would like to foster creative dialogue with the local community and invite artists to explore jointly the bounds to be established between our research, shedding light on sustainable agroecosystems, and the collective movement transforming food and agricultural systems.
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MOBILE SOILS Diners series
This series of three dinners is a collaboration between external page Arvae, Manon Briod & Mathieu Pochon, external page foodculture days, external page TETI Group and SAE Greenhouse Lab. Together, we will unfold the three chapters of the publication external page “MobileSoils” by TETI Press: investigating the mineral and rooted discussions of the underground, looking at the layered and planted conversations on the ground, and finally exploring the circulating patterns across the overground.
“Underground”, the first dinner in the series, explores the invisible textures of the soil, its living organisms, and prophetic qualities. How can the unseen layers of the underground be made visible?
«Ground», the second dinner in the series, explores the dynamics of “giving and taking”, “production and consumption”, “human beings and machines”, “linear and circular”, addressing food and agricultural practices and through scientific and socio-political questions.
For the last diner, "Overground", external page foodculture days invited the artist external page Grace Denis to examine the circulation of plants and nutrients at ground level, questioning the transit of plants and seeds through various terrains. Traversing beyond the subterranean into the plane in which we most frequently encounter plant matter, the dinner investigates the cycling of nutrients amongst plants, illustrating the circulatory forms inherent to cultivation.
These events took place with the support of Pro Helvetia and Migros Pioneer Fund.