Slow Disasters Study Circle: Land and Food Transitions
- May 13
- 2 min read
Updated: May 18
Slow Disasters: Land and Food Transitions is an online study circle that creates space for dialogue about the transformations shaping land and food today, as part of the Mexican edition of the Slow Disasters project.
How do we inhabit the changes currently moving through our territories and food systems?
We invite you to participate in Slow Disasters: Land and Food Transitions, a study circle that opens a space for dialogue in the face of gradual, yet increasingly profound, processes of ecological and cultural degradation affecting the soil, food systems and the ways of life that sustain them.
Grounded in a situated perspective from the Souths, this programme brings together conversations on soil, language, displacement, cosmologies and food systems to collectively imagine other ways of inhabiting, cultivating, cooking and sustaining life.
Across five online modules and gatherings, we will share questions, experiences and collective resonances alongside invited guests from territories and spanning varied practices.
The live study group will be conducted in Spanish. Recordings with English subtitles will be made available afterwards.
Format: Online Gatherings
Dates: 22 May – 26 June 2026
Schedule: 9:00 – 10:30 CST (Mexico) / 16:00 - 17:30 BST (UK)
Join: Registration open via form
Language: Spanish
Programme Outline
May 22 | Welcome Session
May 26 | Module 1: Movements of Cyclical Time -With Ignacio Gutiérrez and Bernardo Caamal
June 2 | Module 2: Displacements -With Columba González-Duarte and Sofía Olascoaga
June 9 | Module 3: Languages and Insurgent Tastes -With Sarah Bak-Geller and Nora Estrada
June 11 | Collective Resonances (Mid-programme reflection)
June 16 | Module 4: Returning to the Soil -With Minerva Cuevas and Yasmine Ostendorf
June 23 | Module 5: Spaces for Inhabiting the Souths -With Angélica Palma and Milton Almonacid
June 26 | Closing Encounter
Produced by Looking Forward and Cocina Colaboratorio, with the support of Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur and the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
For further information, please contact Cocina Colaboratorio at: info@colaboratorykitchen.com.
All photos by Cocina CoLaboratorio
Slow Disasters is a long-term, multi-continental project and methodology developed by British artist Andrew Merritt. The activation in Mexico (Desastres Lentos) is led by Cocina Colaboratorio under the direction of Emilio Hernández, working in close dialogue with Las Caracolas, a local agroecological learning group.
