SoilAssembly
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About
Soil Assembly is a nomadic platform that brings together artists, growers, researchers, designers, and communities. Together, we explore soil as both an ecological foundation and a cultural connector. Soil Assembly sows the seeds of an ecosystem rooted in living pedagogies and growing as a dynamic relationship between people, places, and living systems. Soil is a social and cultural commons.
Regional Soil Assembly
The Soil Assembly under the Soil Tribes project is a process of assembling different regional collectives, networks, institutions and citizens, sharing their histories, ideas, know-how and organizational, pedagogical, agricultural, artistic and scientific capacities around living soils and the regeneration of damaged or destroyed soils.
A soil assembly is a terroir, an assembly that recognizes that the soil is a determining factor in the originality and quality of what it does. Conversely, it also acknowledges that this originality is defined by a human community, which, over the course of its history, has built up a set of distinctive cultural traits, knowledge and practices, based on a system of interactions between the natural environment and human factors. A soil assembly is therefore not just a soil, a substrate that qualifies products, but also an associated community that works it, reveals its originality and gives it its typicality. It’s an artifact, the slow product of centuries of effort, marking the collective work of numerous companion species.
Soil Assemblies aim to replicate themselves, to establish in different regions and localities assemblages of educational, agricultural, activist, scientific and artistic initiatives.
A Soil Assembly is an actor of the territory where it is organized.
Regional partners across Europe are laying the foundations for the fourth International Soil Assembly, to be held in Berlin, 23-25 January 2027 at Spore Initiative, with the support of SoilTribes and the European Union.
Partners 2026-2027 Soil Assembly x Soil Tribes
=====Ukrainian Ecostations Network=====
“Hlyboki Balyky”, Kyiv region, Obukhiv district, village of Balyko-Shchuchynka, 35 Polova Street, UA
https://mey.org.ua/en/
=====Zone2Source=====
Amstel Park, Amsterdam, NL
https://zone2source.net/en/
=====Krater=====
Krater, Ljubljana, SLO
https://krater.si/en
=====Kompost Zone=====
Universität Munster, Stadtlabor Münster, Münster, DE
https://kompost.zone
=====n-Kerminy=====
Kerminy, Rosporden, Brittany, FR
https://kerminy.org
=====Mikrobiomik=====
Herrschig, Munich, DE
https://mikrobiomik.org/
=====International Hackteria Society=====
Zentralwaescherei Zurich, Zurich, CH
https://hackteria.org
International Soil Assembly
The International Soil Assemblies are hybrid online and in-person gatherings aimed at building a network of solidarity and sharing embodied knowledge. This is an annual conference open to participation in discussions, workshops, and performances to celebrate the richness of global biodiversity. The International Soil Assembly is held each year in a different location. The Soil Assembly organized its first hybrid international conference at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India (2023), Soil Assembly #2 – Tinku Uku Pacha in Ecuador (2025), and Soil Assembly #3 at the 6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2026). The Soil Assembly is now coming to Europe with the support of Soil Tribes and a decentralized model of regional assemblies, which will culminate in a final international Soil Assembly #4 at the Spore Initiative in Berlin in January 2027. Visit previous assemblies websites:
Soil Assembly #1 at Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2023, Kerala India
30+ projects presentations by onsite/online participants from 15+ countries
600 people on site, 1000 people online
Archive Page and full program:
https://2023.soilassembly.net
Video archives:
Day 1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3cZhxcSw2dY
Day 2: https://youtube.com/watch?v=b2gRLuX4cz8
Day 3: https://youtube.com/watch?v=B-BF0X9ATpE
Soil Assembly #2 at CICTA, Ecuador
40+ projects presentations by onsite/online participants from 15+ countries
1000 people on site, 600 people online
Archive Page and full program:
https://2025.soilassembly.net
Video archives:
Day 1: https://archive.org/details/@soil_assembly/lists/2/tinku-uku-pacha—dia-1
Day 2: https://archive.org/details/@soil_assembly/lists/1/tinku-uku-pacha—dia-2
Soil Assembly #3 at Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025, Kerala India
40+ project presentations onsite/online participants from 19+ countries
600 people onsite, 1300 online
Archive Page and full program:
https://2026.soilassembly.net
Video archives:
Day : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMThR6bxwe8
Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6wdrXfb8TM
Day 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JoSGBjNAnU
Schedule
May-August 2026
16 MAY 2026
Ukrainian Ecostations Network: Soil Regeneration in the Context of War and Post-War Recovery
Environmental Research Station “Hlyboki Balyky”, Kyiv region, Obukhiv district, village of Balyko-Shchuchynka, 35 Polova Street, UA
Soil regeneration amid war | read more
30-31 MAY 2026
Zone2Source artists gardens assembly
Amstel Park, Amsterdam, NL
Gardeners Assembly – network of artists gardens | read more
22 MAY 2026
Krater: Festivities Under Siege
Krater, Ljubljana, SLO
Neglected urban contexts & anthropogenic ruins
26 JUNE 2026
Kompost Conference
Munster, DE
Composting and regenerative urban farming
2-5 JULY 2026
Kompost Festival
Tempelhof, Berlin, DE
Soil Assembly summer school
29 AUGUST 2026
Kerminy Festival
Kerminy, Rosporden, Brittany, FR
From land to sea: watersheds, soil and the hydrosphere
23 - 25 JANUARY 2027
Internatnation Soil Assembly
Spore Initiative, Berlin, DE
News
https://soilassembly.net/#news
Repository
We are preparing a wiki repository to be visited help us to improve!
https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/Soil_Assembly_repository
Other Repository Links
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@SoilAssembly
Fanzines:
https://arai-eek.github.io/zine-library/mikrobiomik-catalog.html
Wiki Repository:
https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/Soil_Assembly_repository
Maps of Labs:
https://www.makery.info/en/map-labs/
Newspaper:
https://laboratoryplanet.org
Articles:
https://www.makery.info/en/?s=soil+assembly
Fundings
SoilTribes (101157729) is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the European Research Executive Agency (REA) can be held responsible for them.
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