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What is the Living Soil Series?
The Living Soil Series is a curation of programmes that holds space for conversations and deeper understanding of how we relate to land collectively, against the backdrop of Singapore’s fast-paced development and changing landscapes. Through films, workshops and gatherings, this series takes us on a journey in exploring how the phenomenon of urban development shapes and impacts our lives, wellbeing, society, environment and planet.
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Upcoming events from the
Living Soil Series
02/ Social Presencing Theatre (SPT)
Jun 14, Sat 2:30-5:30pm
Image Credit: Michael Ong
Facilitator: Veronica Yow, Pei Ya, Anna Leong and Michael Ong
Case giver: Ground Up Initiative (Bingyu)
Capacity: 30
SPT is an embodied social arts-based change methodology for making visible current reality and exploring emerging future possibilities. Through this collaborative creative process, participants will embody roles within a system, using movement, positioning, stillness and spoken expression to uncover insights about the current state and the emerging potential. SPT deepens the ability of participants to sense and shape the dynamics of addressing complex societal challenges, revealing the wisdom in every social system and supporting movement towards healthier futures.
The specific tool that we'll be using: 4D / Live Stakeholder Mapping
More details soon. Follow us on Instagram for updates, @livingsoil.asia.
03/ System Sensing Workshop
Date & Venue: TBC
Facilitator: Zhong Han of Host Lab
Capacity: 30
In this introductory one-day workshop on systems thinking, participants get to learn about the concept of systems thinking and causal loop diagrams through theory, application, experiential activities and reflection.
Causal Loop Diagrams are helpful to map out elements in a system and their interactions. Examples of how it can be applied for personal, organisational and societal issues will be shared. Participants get to practice creating CLDs for their own issues of interest or concern.
Afterwhich, participants will engage in a large group activity of building CLDs that focus on the topic of land-use. Through this community mapping exercise, it can help facilitate a collective understanding of challenges and opportunities for intervention surrounding the issue of land-use.
Community systems mapping or group model building is a participatory process that engages stakeholders in creating visual representations of complex systems. Through this collective process, they get to co-produce knowledge and responses.
More details soon. Follow us on Instagram for updates, @livingsoil.asia.
04/ Warm Data Lab
Date & Venue: TBC
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Facilitator: Vivian + other invited trained hosts (TBC)
Capacity: 60
An interactive, experiential group session on transcontextual interrelational mutual learning.
“There can be no community without first communing.” - Nora Bateson
Learn more here.
More details soon. Follow us on Instagram for updates, @livingsoil.asia.
05/ Deep Time Walk
Date & Venue: TBC
Image Credit: Deep Time Walk
Facilitators: Santosh (of SoulProbe), supported by Vivian + others
A 4.6km walk across 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history
Learn more here.
More details soon. Follow us on Instagram for updates, @livingsoil.asia.
06/ Living Earth Festival
3rd to 7th December
Join us for a week-long celebration of soil, story, and community. From fireside chats and hands-on workshops to an ongoing exhibition and durational programmes, the festival opens with a gratitude circle and closes in the same spirit. Highlights include a soil painting competition award ceremony and daily activations rooted in art, ecology, and care.
More details soon. Follow us on Instagram for updates, @livingsoil.asia.
Events Archive
01/ A Film Doublebill: Sandcastles + Moving Earth
3rd May. Event Concluded.
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What do we consider as home? The constructed complex we live in? The land where we make our livelihood? In this film double bill, we uncover the narratives of moving homes and earth, land use policy and the construction industry led by urban development.
The film double bill will showcase two films by Singaporean filmmakers, Carin Leong and Ian Mun, where the stories and people of the land are given a voice.
This double bill is the first of a series of programmes on land use by Living Soil Series where we heed the silenced narratives of the land, reconnect with our home-lands and where we reimagine our future ways.
Join us for an interactive pre-film activity in exploring how we relate to land, and a post-screening chat moderated by Vivian, alongside filmmaker Ian Mun, producer Martin Loh and Bingyu from Ground-Up Initiative.
To learn more about Sandcastles by Carin Leong and Moving Earth by Ian Mun, head over here.
About Living Soil Asia
Living Soil Asia builds knowledge and awareness towards regenerative practices and processes, making it accessible and attainable in Singapore. Through the three pods of research, education and culture, Living Soil Asia practices soil regeneration for the well-being of people, planet, communities and society.
