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Soil Futures is a network of creative organisations that explores the ground between us.

The network is a collaboration between five organisations: Arts Catalyst (Sheffield, UK); RIWAQ (al Bireh, Palestine); Sakiya - Art/Science/Agriculture (Ein Qiniya, Palestine); Struggles for Sovereignty (Yogyakarta, Indonesia); and Vessel Art Project (Puglia, Italy).

Soil Futures traverses the practices of five organisations whose work happens in collaboration with communities within their local contexts: from combining agrarian traditions with contemporary ecological practices, to organising across art, food, land rights, indigenous and ecological activism; from monitoring pollution to connecting with wetlands through sound and different ways of sensing.

Over the course of one year, this collective endeavour takes the shape of a programme featuring an artist residency exchange, an online school, a podcast series, and a season of distributed local gatherings.

Grounded within the localities where each organisation is based, this hybrid (IRL and online) programme creates an intercultural exchange between artists, ecologists, activists and soil caretakers to collectively mobilise existing and future knowledges of soil.

Soil Futures views soil and those looking after it (human and non-human) as active agents of change and resistance in the face of current geopolitical and environmental crises. What nutrients are necessary for soils to thrive? What practices of care and maintenance are enacted across different territories and cultures? What ecological knowledges and approaches nourish both lands and communities?

Read more about the residency opportunity Soil Futures Residency Exchange

Soil Futures is funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants, which are designed to support UK and overseas organisations to collaborate on international arts projects.