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Feedforward: Curating in a Climate Crisis
Feedforward: Curating in a Climate Crisis
On the 29th of January 2026, Looking Forward convened curators and cultural producers working at the intersection of art and ecology for a Feedforward session titled Curating in a Climate Crisis.Bringing together practitioners working across institutional, independent and interdisciplinary contexts, the session created space to reflect collectively on what it means to curate amidst ecological collapse and how curators and cultural institutions might respond with care and imagination. This Feedfo
Soft Ground: Textiles and Self-Soothing
Soft Ground: Textiles and Self-Soothing
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Birungi Kawooya
Birungi Kawooya
Conversation between Sylvia Keck and Birungi Kawooya, facilitator for Looking Forward's community engagement programme "Soft Ground".
Cocina CoLaboratorio
Cocina CoLaboratorio
Francesca Fantoni talks with designer and food activist Emilio Hernández about Cocina CoLaboratorio's work in Mexico, where gatherings around soil become tools for collective ecological learning.
Loubie Rusch
Loubie Rusch
Francesca Fantoni joins wild food expert Loubie Rusch to talk about locally adaptive Cape plants and the work of reconnecting communities with South Africa’s biodiverse landscapes.
Andrew Merritt
Andrew Merritt
In this Network Spotlight, Francesca Fantoni joins artist Andrew Merritt to discuss projects from Farm Shop to Slow Disasters and learn about his collaborative, ecologically concerned practice.
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Soft Ground is a four-month programme of free weekly drop-in textile-based art sessions designed to support mental wellbeing through creativity, routine, and communal making. Drawing from neurodivergent practices and trauma-informed methodologies, the sessions are open to all but particularly welcoming to neurodivergent participants.What: Drop-in textile-based art sessions designed to support mental wellbeingWhen: Every Friday, 2–4 pm, from 20 February to 5 June 2026Where: SET Social Peckham,
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Soil at the Kitchen Table: The Transpedagogical Practice of Cocina CoLaboratorio
Soil at the Kitchen Table: The Transpedagogical Practice of Cocina CoLaboratorio
Francesca Fantoni talks with designer and food activist Emilio Hernández about Cocina CoLaboratorio's work in Mexico, where gatherings around soil become tools for collective ecological learning.
The Plant Commons: Reviving Indigenous Foodways in South Africa with Loubie Rusch
The Plant Commons: Reviving Indigenous Foodways in South Africa with Loubie Rusch
Francesca Fantoni joins wild food expert Loubie Rusch to talk about locally adaptive Cape plants and the work of reconnecting communities with South Africa’s biodiverse landscapes.
The Row: Quiet Luxury and Strategic Anonymity
The Row: Quiet Luxury and Strategic Anonymity
A case study on how The Row leverages its established cultural authority to maintain its elite position, engaging with an audience that values intellectual curation over overt branding.
Amaal Said's Open Country
Amaal Said's Open Country
A Somali mother and her British-born daughter walk together through the English countryside, carrying with them a distance that cannot be mapped.
Andrew Merritt on Usefulness, World-Building and Silent Activism
Andrew Merritt on Usefulness, World-Building and Silent Activism
In this Network Spotlight, Francesca Fantoni joins artist Andrew Merritt to discuss projects from Farm Shop to Slow Disasters and learn about his collaborative, ecologically concerned practice.
The Restitution Paradox
The Restitution Paradox
A clear, unbiased summary of the process and ethics behind the Benin Bronzes restitutions, looking at the tensions amongst Western museums, the Oba of Benin and the Museum of West African Art.
Saul Bellow’s “Seize the Day”
Saul Bellow’s “Seize the Day”
The final unravelling of a man’s life over the course of a climactic day in a money-driven, success-obsessed America.
Who Gets to Be an Artist in the UK?
Who Gets to Be an Artist in the UK?
Same data. Different reading. A reinterpretation of recent artist survey data and the economic precarity of the British art system.
A Death in the Family and The Knausgaard Effect
A Death in the Family and The Knausgaard Effect
Towards an Aesthetic Preference in Generative Imagery
Towards an Aesthetic Preference in Generative Imagery
Mapping Recipes for "Slow Disasters" in the Lynedoch Valley
Mapping Recipes for "Slow Disasters" in the Lynedoch Valley
A Song of Science and Humanities
A Song of Science and Humanities
Sculpture for the Blind, by the Blind
Sculpture for the Blind, by the Blind
After-Decay: On the Practice of Eleanor Lakelin
After-Decay: On the Practice of Eleanor Lakelin
About Degrowth
About Degrowth
"Food for Landscapes: Recipes for Slow Disasters" at Design Week Cape Town
"Food for Landscapes: Recipes for Slow Disasters" at Design Week Cape Town
Ernst Gamperl: The Life Within Wood
Ernst Gamperl: The Life Within Wood
Creative Health: Towards a New Creative Industry
Creative Health: Towards a New Creative Industry
Designing Otherwise: Notes from More Than Human
Designing Otherwise: Notes from More Than Human
Museums and Ethical Sponsorships
Museums and Ethical Sponsorships
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