Workshops

Everyday Ecologies: Working with Soil Time

Focusing on soil as a living archive, this workshop reflects on questions of time and maintenance through hands-on soil work. 

🗓️ Saturday, April 25, 2026
🕙10:00AM-12:00PM
📍 Duke Campus Farm
🥞 Light breakfast included
🎫 Registration is free but required

Breakdown: Thinking and Making Compost Together

This session centers compost as both material process and theoretical problem, exploring decay, waste, labor, and transformation through collective compost-making and discussion.

🗓️ Saturday, March 28, 2026
🕙10:00AM-12:00PM
📍 Duke Campus Farm
🥞 Light breakfast included
🎫 Registration is free but required

Cultured: Edible Experiments with More-than-Human Worlds

A conversation on the intimate, interspecies connections made possible by the everyday work of fermentation, in a workshop bringing science, critical theory, and community together. Participants will work co-create living kombucha or sauerkraut ferments to bring home.

🗓️ Saturday, February 21, 2026
🕙10:00AM-12:00PM
📍 Duke Campus Farm
🥞 Light breakfast included
🎫 Registration is free but required

Terms That Serve Us

Virtual care lab is organized by Sara Suárez and Alice Yuan Zhang in partnership with NAVEL, a non-profit cultural organization and community space in Los Angeles

Care Workshops 2020-2021

Between 2020 and 2021, we organized a series of public online conversations focused on care. Topics varied and we examined issues such as post-work, queer kinships, vaccine hesitancy, global labor standards

Visualizing Care Series 2022-2021

Making care more visible and defamiliarizing the naturalized representations of care. Cycle of Workshops funded by Duke Humanities Unbounded from Spring 2021 to Spring 2022