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2026Soil



As designers, we think of the everyday in humble ordinary objects. As architects, we think of the everyday as the daily rituals of a place. Many of us in urban settings have lost the sense for the seasons and the lands that sustain us. We think of time in linear schedules with clear beginnings and endings. Soil health is one of the most important yet invisible factors in the wellbeing and sustenance of society – the foundation for all terrestrial ecosystems. And in gardening of all scales, time has a rhythm of its own. Growth is gradual, cyclical, and continuous. This workshop invites us to turn to the spaces between buildings: to the weed that grows in a crack in the pavement, to the square meter around the base of a tree, to city parks, to the agricultural fields around our towns, to coastal ecosystems, and to wild habitat pockets.

As an industry, we are generally methodically linear. The material is assembled in its complete form, and handed over. The work is visible and illusorily complete. Paraphrasing artist-architect Fritz Haeg, when a garden or piece of land is well maintained, the work is invisible – you only notice it when it isn’t done.
Ana Mendieta, Imagen de Yagul, 1973



Program
Thu
Introductions
Fri
Workshop Day 1
Sat
Copenhagen TourSun
Rest Mon
Workshop Day 2
Tue
Workshop Day 3
Wed
Workshop Day 4
Thu
Workshop Day 5
Fri
Reviews



Workshop leaders, guest lectures, and the specific location will be announced soon.


Bibliography
  1. Andrew Tuck in conversation with Jeremy Till and Tatjana Schneider, Architecture Is Climate, 2025
  2. Mould, Architecture Is Climate, 2025
  3. Ahali Conversations with Can Altay, Episode 8: Fritz Haeg, 2020
  4. Rebecca Harrell Tickell and Josh Tickell, Common Ground, 2023
  5. Alex Pritz, The Territory, 2022
  6. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 2013
  7. David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, 2007
  8. Richard Powers, The Overstory, 2018
  9. Hélène Frichot, Dirty Theory: Troubling Architecture, 2019



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