Honey, Shit, Soil, ’Dərt ~ eating our way to (better) futures.
Honey, Shit, Soil, ’Dərt ~ eating our way to (better) futures.
’Dərt is soil that has lost its connection to the earth. In this distributed salon, we invite you to feel, taste, smell and imagine your way towards new relationships with the food we eat, the creatures that shape our tastes, and the soil, whose health we rely on.
This distributed salon combines discussion, provocation and guided engagement. Over 120 minutes, you will feel, taste, smell and imagine your way towards new relationships with the food we eat and the creatures that shape our tastes.
’Dərt (the phonetic spelling of dirt) has many meanings. Often considered a shitty, filthy soiling substance,’dərt is merely soil that has lost its connection to the earth. In this salon, you will be invited to reconnect yourself to the soil around a distributed table. Through individual activities, storytelling, group and breakout sessions, using props from your home – foodstuffs and recipes – and salacious provocations provided, we will collectively reconnect our food practices to the soil, whose health we rely on.
Requirements for participants
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To participate fully in the activities, please arrange a food-safe work surface (a clean table, benchtop, piece of wood, stone...), gather a selection of vessels and tools for working with food, and as many examples as you can of Honey, Shit, Soil, and ’Dərt – thinking literally, metaphorically, materially and relationally about these primal elements.
Danielle Wilde
Danielle Wilde is Associate Professor of Embodied Design at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Kolding, where she leads SDU’s [body|bio] Soft Lab. She specialises in participatory, speculative and critical research-through-design, bringing focus to the social and ecological impact of body-technology pairings and human-food interactions. Her methods enable diverse stakeholders to engage with problems that cut cross disciplines and cultures, and develop new practices, policies and technologies through a bottom-up approach. Wilde has a long-standing commitment to developing workshops, salons and other participatory formats to support collective consideration of challenging issues and sees them as a convivial conduit for critical debate. She publishes and exhibits widely and has received numerous awards for her work, see: www.daniellewilde.com and www.foodfutures.group.