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Soil Chromatography Workshop
2-Day Workshop as Part of the Kompost Festival
2. July 2026
13.00-16.00
13.00-16.00
3. July 2026
13.00-16.00
13.00-16.00
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For adults and teenagers older than 14
in German/in English
The workshop is specifically designed for soil activists and community gardeners in Berlin and the surrounding area.
Using ring filter chromatography, we will create an image of soil that reveals what is hidden and sparks reflection on soil, life, and our relationship to them. This is not a quantitative or scientific approach to soil, but rather a qualitative, subjective, and experimental one.
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In an era of soil sealing, species loss, and industrialized agriculture, we invite you to reconsider soil as a cultural, ecological, and political issue. Soil chromatography bridges the gap between science, art, and collective experience.
The workshop will be facilitated by Julian Chollet, founder of the non-profit association mikroBIOMIK.
Kompost Festival
Surrounded by raised beds, compost toilets, and bokashi buckets, spaces emerge for connection, observation, and learning alongside the soil. The festival operates at the intersection of ecology, science, art, and down-to-earth practice. Through microscopy workshops, garden soil tours, communal composting activities, and discussion panels, humus-like knowledge is shared, questioned, and developed further—from "dirty philosophy" to concrete, hands-on actions.
The focus is less on clear-cut answers and more on open exploration, attention, exchange, and fostering new relationships between people and the soil. Compost is the art of living transformation, a process that connects, breaks down, and reassembles.
The festival is part of the international Soil Assembly network, which moves from India in 2024 to Ecuador in 2025 and then to Europe through "Soil Assemblies." Regional Soil Assemblies will take place in Slovenia, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Germany, and France in the summer of 2026. They will all come together in Berlin in January 2027.
