"ZOOCHORY"
A workshop in contemporary cartography, sculpture and agriculture in the countryside of Denmark

The Harvest School is an annual 4-day workshop that explores landscape, agriculture, sculpture and cartography through critical thinking and hands-on activities. The school is open to 16 participants who are interested in agriculture, landscape, art and community. 

At this year’s Harvest School, we will examine the agricultural areas around Orbi and explore how we might influence their future shape and ecology. The Danish landscape is about to undergo significant changes. Bottomlands are being taken out of production, new forests are being planted, and thousands of hectares will be converted from farmland to nature. 

The Harvest School emerges from a desire to bring creativity and poetry to agriculture. Taking the surrounding farmland as a starting point, the school creates a space for dreams and dialogue about how the transformation of farmland can give rise to new landscapes and nature experiences. 

The school is built around practical workshops dealing with land-use techniques and there overlaps with local building traditions, art and architecture. We will work with cartography and sculpture as poetic tools to map the land, creating a situationist cartography with the potential to both predict and physically alter the landscape.

First, there was nothing. Then a nut. A nut, planted in the soil of the heavens, a nut that began to sprout. Not abruptly or explosively, but steadily and quietly.

Then the nut lifted a tree on its shoulders, and the tree sent up a trunk of current.
The trunk bore branches, and the branches bore stems. From the stems hung nuts, and the nuts were like moons, the nuts were moons.

— Shekufe Tadayoni Heiberg, Nuts (a bio-sci-fi)

Apply

Send your application to hostskolen@orbivraa.dk before Sunday, 12 October. 

Please include  a short paragraph of no more than 10 lines telling us who you are and why you wish  to participate. 

If more than 16 apply, participants will be selected based on their motivation statements. 

We want to bring together a diverse group of people and encourage applications from all disciplines, whether you work in architecture, art, agriculture or other fields. We warmly encourage everyone to apply, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or religion.

Price

Participation in the Harvest School costs 1200 kr. This includes food, accommodation, materials and activities.

Facilities

All meals are organised and prepared together. Participants sleep together on the farm in rooms with 3-6 people per room. The farm has a shared toilet with a shower. The farm is located close to the forest and Gram Å, where you can fish and take a cold dip. The barn has a workspace, a workshop and a sauna.

Transport

Participants are responsible for arranging their own transport to the farm. You can take the train to Vamdrup station or arrive by car. From Vamdrup station, it’s possible to book a “flex ride” via Sydtrafik.

Schedule

Wednesday 29/10:  Arrival and dinner
Thursday 30/10 – Sunday 1/11:  Activities
Sunday 2/11: Cleaning, exhibition and departure

Organisers

Leonora Krag
Janne G. K. Dinesen
Line Lyhne
Josefine Bols

Guest teachers

Lance Gofort
Ellen Martine Heuser