Workshop
Sand bed as an environment for soil-dwelling bees
Garden loops invites you to join an exploration of the material surface of our city and how this allows for different non-human inhabitants to coexist with us. We will focus on the sand bed as an environment for soil-dwelling species like solitary bees, or wild bees. Through a non-extractive perspective we will build small sand bed prototypes for these inhabitants together.
The Sandbädd event is part of the Locally Alien Festival.
A FESTIVAL FOR ECOLOGICAL CULTURE IN MALMÖ https://locallyalien.org/
The objective of this program is to look more deeply at nonhuman species (plants, fungi, animals, bacteria, and the rest) in Malmö and to better understand the market and state forces behind rapid extinction of species globally. Listening to, and looking to creatures around us, they can show us how these forces are at work here in the city.
In this post-industrial city we can find that the myth of “man and nature” is baked into its harbors, roads, and buildings. Through Locally Alien we will explore how domination, extraction, and exploitation have come to define our relationship to nonhuman residents of the city.
The program is composed of creative workshops, exhibitions, walks, and performances focused on the ecological culture of Malmö. Through the perspective of the city’s many different residents we might find new ways of relating to nonhuman ecology.