"Folkfarma is a design research workshop that seeks to imagine and materialize new definitions of what health and well-being might be when it is thought of as a restorative and mutually beneficial relationship to the land. Together, we will gain a critical and regenerative perspective on material culture within the context of health and pharmacology, examining how issues surrounding the biopolitics and decoloniality of care are inextricably linked to local ecologies. Through experimental practices such as restorative foraging, DIY/DIT production techniques used in traditional healing practices, and by examining your own bodily relationships to the environment, you will be invited to create new ways of folkfarming that focus on elements of the Eindhoven bioregion."
Day 1. About Folkfarma + Talk with Karo
→ About Folkfarma and Cohealing. Fig 19.
- Think of relationships in different ways
- Connection with the traditional roots in front of conventional medical practices
- Cohealing → collection of bacteria that lives inside our bodies to process our own health. Transplantation of micro bacteria to another person who has a possible injury
- Body fluids as medicine for others
- Shape a vision of health, rituals out of the system caring with different people.
Against the passive vision of patient, make them participant of their health.
- Ritual as a living transplant tool with conditions for microbio to live and be happy (the space it is heated) based in trust, interdependency and cohealing (thesis in the library)
- Think through relationships, not just about the materiality.
- We are a collection of species.
- Science doesn't lead with emotion, it is about the mecanic of your body. What about the holistic part?
- Microbies are turning smarter so antibiotics are starting to not work anymore. Now they are not getting the exercise they need due to social distancing (Covid)
- Not interested in scaling-up this.
- Project of take a bath with someone (during Covid) → Rituals with different characteristics of people (hairdresser, man, nurse who has been in the hospital taking care of patients with Covid...) Body as an archive of knowledge.
→ Practices in the topic:
- De Onknicenier → Ecosystem of the plants
- Uriel Orlaw → Learning from Artemise, Theatrum Botanicum