Hmmm, it seems that projects related to 'connectivity' come my way often these days. And in this case I literally connected all the posters together.

I was happy to design a couple of posters and small reader for the Architecture department of the University of Luxemburg in Autumn 2023. That semester @zdravo.marija, @cerreyes and @davidpeleman are launching a design studio "Worlding Soils. Caring for Soil Communities in Minett" at the @master.arch.lu.

The design studio centers soil—a system commonly overlooked in architectural discussion and representation—as its subject, matter, and site for the analysis of histories and presents of capitalist extraction, as well as a projection of solidary and shared futures of co-existence. Understanding underground not only as a passive recipient of political, economic, and social processes coming from above, but as a space of resistance, as “somewhere to (dig and) plot,” to quote Kathryn Yusoff, the studio will position soil beyond its resourcefulness and productivity for humans, trying instead to think what would it mean to test practices of care and repair in building soil communities and enabling interdependencies between all those who share the condition of life in the ruins of capitalist extraction?

The studio will be accompanied by a stellar public lecture series with four amazing guests, including Mio Tsuneyama @miotsuneyama, Paulo Tavares @pauloxtavares, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa @m.puigbellacasa and Marina Otero Verzier, taking place at @lucacenterforarchitecture throughout the course of the semester.

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