The world can look dark, especially in January for the people who live in the northern hemisphere. The days are short, the winter holiday decorations and cosiness fade away. Nature seems asleep or dead, except […]
Dimpna, a story about an uprooted Irish princess rerooting in Flanders, and a 6 centuries old method of care for the mental ill
On a July day, in 2021, I was in Geel, with a fellow offspring of a witch that did not get burned in the 17th century, to “dig up some bones”. That’s what we call […]
Rooting with stones #3
A new home in an ancient landscape The Aveyron is one of the biggest and at the same time most sparsely populated departments in France: 31 people per km2 compared to for example 488 people […]
2 new writing(with)plants sessions in November 2022
Often we underestimate the power of plants. We, humans, think often that we are the only stewards or helpers of the earth, but plants can be our allies too. Therefore, we organise virtual circles where […]
There is no such thing as an Empty Landscape.
Last summer, I was for a week in Czech Republic, visited Prague and dreamed about a rewilded story of Sarka. Afterwards, I participated in the Summer training school programme “Tracing & dwelling in post-anthropocentric landscapes“, […]
Rooting with stones #2
Changing agency in an imaginary landscape The power of stories People love stories. Our whole lives are made up of stories. Some researchers say that the main reason why humans developed speech is… ‘gossip’. Whether […]
Rewilding the Czech legend of Libuše’s vision and Wild Sarka
I met Libuše and Sarka nine years ago. I lived in Prague for a year, because I was enrolled in a vocational training in film making, with focus on video editing and script writing. My […]
Rooting with stones
Imaginary wanderings through the ancient landscapes of South-Aveyron (France) Introduction In 2016 I moved from the Campine in Belgium to a rural, mountainous region in the South of France. This blog tells the story of […]
A Linden Tree in Tongerlo (and educational philosophy for the future)
One of my new short stories got published as part of a book of speculative social fiction that present different possible futures of education. About the book: Educational Fabulations *Teaching and Learning for a World […]
Feeding my imagination with nature
“Knowledge feeds fictions, and fictions set the powers free”The life of Elves, Muriel Barbery I arrived in Brussels in 2019. I was surrounded by high buildings, busy streets and a roundabout full of cars. But […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 