Building Earthbound: Shaping an Ecological Exhibition through Collaboration
As part of Earthbound, d-o-t-s is carrying out an immersive, two-week preparatory residence from March 17th to 30th, 2025, intended to bring together diverse creative practices and ecological thinking. In collaboration with graphic designer Aglaë Miguel (France), scenographer Vicent Orts (Spain), and biodynamic gardener and poet Dana Zoutman (The Netherlands), the team will collaboratively design and produce the exhibition’s scenography, visual identity, magazine, and community compost.
The residence represents a crucial moment in the development of Earthbound, offering a space for experimentation, dialogue, and the exchange of ideas among participants. Structured as an intensive, hands-on, and collaborative process, it will focus on exploring how decay, regeneration, and ecological stewardship can be embedded in the creation of a temporary exhibition. The scenography and compost will be crafted exclusively from repurposed and locally sourced materials, ensuring that the physical aspects of the exhibition align with the project’s overarching commitment to environmental responsibility, resourcefulness, and circularity. In this way, the exhibition space itself shall become a living testament to the idea of regeneration, offering visitors not only a visual experience but also a tangible example of how waste and materials can be reimagined and transformed.
The project’s magazine will also be developed as a compostable object, using materials and printing processes that adhere to principles of circularity and care. It will be conceived as an integral extension of the exhibition, offering in-depth insights into its themes while documenting the collaborative process behind it. The contents will include a diverse range of contributions, including texts that explore the works on display, interviews with the artists, poems, illustrations, scans of archival materials, and recipes.
Mediators: Laura Drouet & Olivier Lacrouts
About d-o-t-s (Laura Drouet & Olivier Lacrouts)
d-o-t-s is a collaborative practice that merges critical research, curating, writing, and environmental thinking to explore the relationships that human and other-than-human communities establish in the landscapes they cohabit. Defined by the participatory and interdisciplinary approach, d-o-t-s’ work spans exhibition-making, hands-on workshops and design commissions, with a focus on fostering dialogue across diverse fields. Since 2024, d-o-t-s are members of the French association of curators, C-E-A.