RESEARCH
What We Do
We make soil regeneration practices and knowledge familiar, increasingly visible and accessible to communities in Singapore and the region.
We pursue long-term inquiry with diverse communities in ever-expanding networks.
We support our Education Pod in creating programs that are based on local lived experiences and community-led action research.
Our community-led action research informs our educational programs.
How We Do It
We engage in community-led action research, which means building and organising bottom-up and horizontal forms of research undertaken and led by communities.
Our Current Project
Our research strives towards the model of action research: we are carrying out, for our foundational research, a 2-year collaborative project with the National Parks Board of Singapore, on soil regeneration practices in gardens with experience and less experience.
Our research questions are:
01. What practices are gardeners with experience in regenerative practices using, and what issues or challenges do they face?
02. How does soil quantitatively compare across time in these gardens on a range of chemical and physical properties?
03. Can qualitative recordings of gardeners' practices explain the changes and help us find best practices for real-life community gardens - in all their best and worst, and just-enough situations?
Our Works
SHORT VIDEOS
COMMUNITY SOIL MANUALS
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
JOURNALISTIC ARTICLES
COMMENTARY
Community-led action research: research that builds bottom-up with horizontal forms of organising, undertaken and led by communities working for their own benefit.
What We Strive To Do
Our objectives are to make soil regeneration practices familiar, increasingly visible, and intriguing. These practices may include things as innocuous as weeding and using a ground cover to things which look aesthetically unkempt / "messy" to people familiar with imagery of standardised monoculture foodscapes (including supermarkets and plantations).
We care about long-term inquiry with diverse communities in an ever-expanding network.
And we care about achieving impact. We measure impact by how policies and practices change to address areas we advocate for, based on areas of concern to individuals and communities we are in touch with.
Creating evidence-based proposals for policy, helping communities put a shape to their work, and helping policymakers chart future plans based on evidence of success, concerns and existing strengths for invisibililised or incommensurable value.
Linking with the education pod to bring issues we cannot address at the governance level to the educational domain.
Who We Work With
We are creating a platform for knowledge co-creation with students, retirees, gardeners, farmers, teachers, educators, enterprise founders, writers, filmmakers, video creators, doers and imaginers of a more social and ecological world.
We need people with backgrounds in the social sciences, sciences, arts and humanities to bring this to life. If co-creation interests you, reach out to us!
