… or how my transition into a wooden tiny house perched on stone legs in sandy soil intertwines with my Rewilding Saint project, creating a mid-spring ritual. My personal lived experience (the inspiration): At the […]
Category: Belgian Wood Stories
On Whit Monday (25 May), let’s rewild and reroot local female saints
I am back with another symposium, this time on Whit Monday (May 25th, 12.00-20.00 Brussels time / CEST / UTC+2) to discuss and create eco-myths, this time blending botany and Catholic female saints’ stories. I […]
Final Days: Help the writing(with)plants care(work)book Take Root
The book The care(work)book grows out of five years of writing(with)plants sessions, collective gatherings where people write alongside plants and landscapes, slowing down to notice, reflect and imagine together new stories, rituals and prototypes. This first edition […]
The grapevine, the gossips, a multispecies voice – how to tell stories that cannot be told, but should be told?
This blogpost is part of the creative process of the upcoming writing(with)plants care(work)book. Currently we do crowdfunding (until April 17th, check here), which means that we are receiving money from backers, but that we are […]
You are invited to join Writing(with)Willow on March 22 and April 12th – and create a multispecies family portrait
This spring I’m inviting you to two special Writing(with)Willow sessions on March 22 and April 12. They are part of the growing writing(with)care project … and also connected to the crowdfunding campaign for the upcoming book. Why willow? Yes, there is a willow […]
The Writing(with)plants care(work)book is here – Reserve Your Copy
The book What if writing could become a form of care? The care(work)book grows out of five years of writing(with)plants sessions, collective gatherings where people write alongside plants and landscapes, slowing down to notice, reflect and imagine […]
Co-creating an apothecary experience with design students (and Celtic birth trees?)
Last week, together with Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri, I facilitated a design workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, with Master’s students in architecture, interior architecture, product development, drawing, and the arts. The overarching theme? Be+longing. There were eighteen workshops running […]
A warm data lab with students and plants during a design workshop in Antwerp
I am not a trained Warm Data Lab host, although I have participated in several labs. I don’t consider myself an expert. However, I often collaborate with trained Warm Data hosts in larger learning and […]
A new chapter for wood wide stories and our first pocket book
Seven years of wood wide web stories – and a new chapter begins Seven years ago, around the autumn equinox, I started http://www.woodwidewebstories.com. At first, it was simply a blog, a way to document my […]
[Only in Dutch] Van bezielde landschappen in Japan naar betoverde plekken in Nederland en België – doe mee met een online kringgesprek (afgelast)
Deel van de promotie van TUSSENLAND In zomer 2025 organiseer ik live en online momenten voor verbinding en verwondering. Voor mij is mijn nieuwste boek Tussenland een artefact van een groter project, een excuus om […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 