SILJE ERØY SOLLIEN – Repair Garden

Compost workshop – repairing the garden and yourself

It used to be a romantic garden studio. Now it has been “cleaned up” to such an extent that it has completely lost its urban, romantic character of sheltered elegance and overgrown decay.

Silje Erøy Sollien calls for our help to transform the garden into a sheltered and nurturing green space once again. We engage in actions that ground us and nourish the soil, allowing the garden to repair us as we perform actions of repair.

We commemorate and grieve the beautiful place. We bury compost to nurture the soil and start building shelter and support structures for new plants to grow and climb.

NB! We encourage you to bring organic matter that no longer serves you from your own kitchen or garden waste. It will contribute to the collective composting process of repair, and potentially be woven into a sheltering structure.

ABOUT SILJE ERØY SOLLIEN – COMPOST SCHOOL FOR AWKWARD TIMES

Silje Erøy Sollien is an architectural researcher, slow thinker and urban permaculture designer embracing breakdown and exploring how composting can improve our lives and habitats.

The Compost School for Awkward Times carries out collaborative compost workshops, sensory soil explorations, talks, lectures and urban design research firmly rooted in the ground. In addition to academic and practice-based urban research, an artist residency with Metropolis in 2024 helped this very personal artistic compost practice emerge and merge with other types of awkward urban space research.

PRACTICAL INFO

Duration: 90 min.
Participants: 10
Age: All
Language: English

Photo: Silje Erøy Sollien (1: Repair Garden / 3: Romantic Garden) & Astrid Randrup (2)