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 […]
Join us this summer in enchanting Latvia
Hosted by the Nordic Summer University Study Circle 5: Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices with/in the More-than-Human World In hyperindividualised societies most of us are trained into super-autonomy and lose capacities to care for self, […]
You are invited to join writing(with)Marsh reed and Michael Marder on March 8th
Yes, that’s a lot of M’s in the title. What if we didn’t rewrite dark myths into prettier stories, but learned how to walk through them together? On Sunday, March 8th, 15-17.00 (Brussels time), join us […]
Writing with Place and Mythopoetic Plants: Marsh Reed and the Medusa Head Cactus
In January, Lisa Sattell hosted two sessions focused on the same plant: Medusa Head, a cactus that is, botanically speaking, not quite a cactus. She also emphasized that these were not simply writing-with-plants sessions, but writing-with-mythopoetic-plants sessions, because these […]
Swamp-thinking, Soil soups and a Billion Folk Songs in the Nordic-Baltic region of Europe – a synthesis of our eco+mythology symposium
The eco+mythology winter symposium was dense with richness and layers. What I carried out of it will inevitably differ from what others took home. What follows is not a neutral report, but a situated retelling, […]
Brewing Soil Soup in a Cauldron – Tools for an online symposium
During the weekend of 17–18 January 2026, we hosted an online Winter Symposium for our study circle Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices With/In a More-than-human World. This gathering marked the third of six symposia taking place […]
Feeding the ‘Fjøssnissen’ and your imagination in a Norwegian biodynamic farm during Christmas Eve
Before and around Christmas, I spent three to four days in a beautiful, magical valley in the Norwegian mountains, about a four-hour train ride from Oslo, followed by another one-hour car ride. I stayed with […]
Aluxes, the guardians of the Maya jungle and cenotes
At the end of October, I left Europe for 3–4 weeks in Mexico, more specifically the Maya region, which is partly situated on the Yucatán Peninsula. Via GetYourGuide, I booked a tour to visit cenotes, […]
EcoMythology online winter symposium (17-18 January 2026)
We welcome anyone on this online weekend event, who wants to learn together more what the methods are to create an eco-mythology for your watershed, city, region, neighbourhood, or your life. The programme Timezone: Brussels […]