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Learning from S.P.A.R.R.O.W.S. — Documentary Now Available Online

In December 2023, in parallel with COP28, 27 educators and social workers from 11 European countries convened at Torri Superiore for a 10-day advanced training in social permaculture. The program examined how permaculture design principles can be applied to social systems, particularly in relation to climate change, migration, and community resilience. Grounded in the principle articulated by David Holmgren as “Use and value the margins,” the training combined theoretical inquiry with experiential learning in socially and environmentally marginal contexts.

The film spotlights Marguerite Kahrl’s Relational nests: Torri Superiore—a permanent installation at the ecovillage merging art, ecology, and community. The Relational nests invite us to rethink our communities and explore how we might connect with sparrows and other birds impacted by climate change, industrial farming and modern construction practices.

The film contributes to ongoing discourse on socially engaged practice, ecological design, and learning from marginal spaces as sites of innovation and care.

Marguerite Kahrl, Relational nests: Torri Superiore (Passer domesticus), 2021-ongoing, terracotta and colored slip, variable dimensions photo: Marguerite Kahrl

The Learning from S.P.A.R.R.O.W.S documentary is now available online, free to watch (1h06m, English with Italian subtitles)

https://youtu.be/rbUaqaer9Z4

Directed by: Dario Ferraro and Giulia Attanasio
Organizers and teachers:
Lucilla Borio, Massimo Candela (Torri Superiore Ecovillage)
Marguerite Kahrl (Permaculture for Refuges – Artist )
Dražen Šimleša  (ZMAG – Green Network of Activist Groups)
Silvia Corna (Young Permaculture Designers – Consolida)
Morag Gamble (Permaculture Education Institute)

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999. A collection of questions about contemporary living

2018
“HOMEMAKER: the practice of dwelling”, installation.
Triennale of Milan
January 12 – April 2, 2018

The Triennale di Milano presents 999: A Collection of Questions on Contemporary Living, an exhibition conceived and curated by Stefano Mirti.

MARGUERITE KAHRL, “HOMEMAKER: the practice of dwelling” working model (2018)

Suspended models of dwellings question the notion of home as a fixed and delineated place. Instead these handcrafted signifiers of ‘home’ reference domestic practices, which build on the sense of belonging.

Being and feeling at home is a process of making, intertwined with routines, objects, shelter, and community. Shifting the focus from a closed space to the practice of dwelling helps us to consider belonging as more of an open and social process.

The exhibition consists of a series of questions on the places of our lives, and it illustrates the theme of housing as we have never seen it before. The exhibition is a sweeping investigation of the concept of house and home, living and dwelling, on the borderline between the physical and digital worlds. It is a journey through new realms of the imagination, which are transforming our lives. It is an innovative, wide-ranging, collaborative, and ever-changing exhibition, which evolves in space and time.