Making Community Gardens
These initiatives reclaim degraded lands to cultivate local organic food systems, create native forests, food forests, vertical gardens and ecoparks, establish food foraging public spaces and orchards, bring back biodiversity through rewilding, and create vibrant green social spaces through hands-on learning exchange and upskilling. Participants coproduce gardens in their entirety, working together in all aspects… Continue reading
DIY Hacklabs
Hacklabs are creative workshops in which participants are taught how to reconfigure basic electronic hardware components to create custom devices. USB microscopes are created with participants by teaching them how to disassemble old webcams, invert the lenses and reassemble the housing frameworks in unique and interesting ways. The project fosters an interest in working with… Continue reading
Speed Writing Workshops
Speed writing workshops focus on producing publication-ready articles or books, either collectively or individually, by bringing together a group of writers, editors, and a graphic designer to go from producing an outline to a finished document in 3-5 days. There is no pre-production and the group is guided by careful facilitation through the entire process.
Children’s Gardening Workshops
Inspiring children’s natural curiosity and wonder with hands-on learning experiences and inquiry-based exploration through gardening, plant science, projects & crafts, botanical drawing, and a range of experiments in edible literacy.
Filmmaking & Media Production Workshops
These workshops offer openings for emerging documentary media producers to learn preproduction, production and postproduction skills, to negotiate the structures of funding and publicity, to develop their professional identities and to understand various forms of digital representation and distribution within a broader communications framework. The workshops challenge popular ideas about media culture as a platform… Continue reading
Liter of Light Workshops
The Liter of Light solar bulb is made of a plastic bottle, water, a tablespoon of bleach (to prevent mold) and a drop of glue. This zero-carbon, low-cost, citizen-driven energy initiative is designed for those living without access to electricity. The project plays a crucial role in bringing security and opportunity to the poor by… Continue reading