Writings

Here a selection of our recent writings:

The Art of Sympoiethics
Publication in the special 2022 edition of The Ecological Citizen in which we introduce sympoiethics as a participatory consciousness which guides our interactions with soil care, food cultures, thanks-giving rituals and regenerative farming.

Towards ever more extended epistemolgies
‘Towards ever more extended epistemologies: pluriversality and decolonisation of knowledges in participatory inquiry’ (2021) Handbook of Participatory Inquiry Burns, D., Howard, J. & Ospina, S. (eds.). This chapter is written by Dr Patricia Gaya and documents Miche’s doctoral research as an example of pioneering experiments in pluriversality and decolonisation.

The Art of Food Rituals as a Practice in Sympoiethics
The Art of Food Rituals as a Practice in Sympoiethics’ within Subtle Agroecologies: Farming With the Hidden Half of Nature edited by Wright, J. (2021) explores how contemporary ritual forms offer a safe and convivial haven to nurture social, ecological and food justice.

Sympoiethics: For the Love of a Field
This option piece published in 2021 for The Ecological Citizen introduces our durational project For the Love of a Field and how a Sympoiethic orientation is guiding its transformation towards every greater natural-cultural diversity.

Re-naturing Ritual
‘Re-naturing Ritual: For the Love of a Field - Water’ (2020) The Environment Magazine of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM). Within ritual exchanges, we are guided in our response-abilities to the field and its diverse communities as part of a wider ethics of care for personal, social and ecological regeneration.

Artful Bodymind: Enlivening Transformative Research Methodologies
Dr Miche Fabre Lewin’s practice-based doctorate Artful Bodymind (2020) with the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry University.

Arts to Transform Ecologies
Ecovention Europe: Arts to Transform Ecologies 1957-2017 (2017) by Sue Spaid accompanied Ecovention Europe exhibition at the Museum De Domijnen Hedendaagse Kunst (Contemporary Art) and gives examples of recent projects by Touchstones Earth within an overview of art and ecology in Europe.

Curating the Convivial
‘Curating the Convivial for Soil Culture at Create’ (2015) by Miche Fabre Lewin, Clive Adams and Flora Gathorne-Hardy in Geohumanities: Space, Place and the Humanities Vol 1: 2.

Artful Science and Scienceful Art
Artful Science and Scienceful Art (2020) The Environment Magazine of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM). This article documents the Forum of Inspiration hosted by Touchstones Earth with the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) the Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience (CAWR), and the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW).

Soil Culture at Create
Soil Culture (2016) by Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World includes details of our Soil Saturdays exhibition programme and Blue Soil Shrine residency in Bristol during UN International Year of Soils.