The Working on Common Ground conference takes its starting point in Have we met?, the Dutch pavilion curated by Het Nieuwe Instituut, the national museum and institute for architecture, design and digital culture. With the collaboration of cheFare, agency for cultural transformation, the conference investigates the Dutch and Italian environments to discover both overlapping characteristics and location-specific aspects of two ecological realities, and explores the potential for fostering multi-species communities.

If art, design, agriculture and science can help us combat the ongoing ecological devastation of the earth and can support the cultivation of mutually supportive relations between humans and non-humans, this should inform not only the cultural imagination, but also governmental policies, legal frameworks and broader social infrastructures.

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