RESEARCH
What We Do
We develop research focused on deepening understanding and awareness of soil regeneration practices across Singapore and the region. While the origin of our work lies in soil, our inquiry extends beyond it to explore questions around forming and sustaining healthy communities, urban food systems, and wider regenerative ways of being. We seek to make these practices more familiar, accessible, and meaningful for the community by grounding them in our local context.
Alongside developing research outputs and learning resources, our research informs and supports our Education Pod in creating educational programmes grounded in local lived experiences and community-led action research.
For our research, publications, stories, and findings, visit our Living Soil Asia Research Website.
How We Do it
At Living Soil Asia, it’s not just what we do, it’s how we do it.
We seek to surface knowledge, grounded in a culture of care and in an ever-expanding, diverse, and collaborative network. We do this by engaging in community-led action research, which means building and organising bottom-up and horizontal forms of research undertaken and led by communities. Rather than conducting research about communities, we conduct it with them.
Gardeners and community members are collaborators throughout the research process, shaping the questions, contributing observations, and building knowledge together. By bringing lived experience into conversation with scientific evidence, we develop a richer understanding of regenerative practices and their wider social and ecological impacts.
Learn more about our research approach and philosophy on the research website's About page.
Community-led action research: research that builds bottom-up with horizontal forms of organising, undertaken and led by communities working for their own benefit.
Our Work
On the research website, you can explore: our Knowledge Hub - a growing collection of Living Soil Asia’s research, stories, datasets, and learning resources. You can also browse our Community Resources to discover tools, readings, and materials from practitioners and organisations whose work informs and inspires our own practices and inquiry.
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