Beneath Our Feet: Speculative Writing with the Living Earth

Beneath Our Feet: Speculative Writing with the Living Earth

  • INR 499
  • Culinary Arts
  • Workshop

Curated by
Edible Issues

The Old GMC Complex
The Food Lab
15th December
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
LIKE

It’s easy to forget that soil is a part of our food system. While dirt might not be present on the plates we make, serve and eat, eating is, as Wendell Berry reminds us, an agricultural act.

In this creative writing workshop, we’ll turn our attention toward dirt, soil, and land. Together, we’ll explore how soil carries memory, holds histories of extraction and regeneration, and offers speculative futures. Participants will be guided through generative exercises designed to spark both personal and imaginative approaches to soil storytelling. We’ll draw from sensory memory, ecological observation, and speculative leaps—writing from our own relationships with soil as well as from invented or future-oriented perspectives. Whether you’ve grown a garden, dug your hands into unfamiliar ground, or simply walked across a patch of earth, you already carry soil stories with you. This workshop creates space to unearth them, reshape them, and share them in community.

Through playful prompts, discussion, and sharing, we’ll ask: How can writing about soil help us see land as more than resource? What happens when we let the nonhuman world speak in our stories? What forms of intimacy, responsibility, or imagination become possible when we treat dirt not as background but as active companion? No prior writing experience is required—just curiosity, openness, and a willingness to experiment. By the end of the session, participants will leave with fresh drafts, new ways of imagining their relationship to the ground beneath them, and the beginnings of stories that speculate on the many lives of soil.

Come ready to get your hands dirty on the page.

Facilitator: Lily Kelting

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