Alicia Ville, Riel Bessai and Crystal Mah – Carbon Negative Soup

This workshop is designed to address the challenges of collective resilience and environmental degradation. It invites via a practical example to imagine how Rotterdam, a city built on infertile ground, can create community around low-tech solutions for climate mitigation. Using an oxygen-deprived oven, the participants will be invited to cook soup and produce charcoal, a low-tech alternative to increase soil fertility and store carbon.

Via this alternative practice, participants will be prompted to think about similar tools to embed subsidiarity and regeneration into their own practices. In a nutshell, this session invites participants to ‘notice dropped threads that may be picked up again’ and to rethink our relationship with the urban landscape – not just as passive inhabitants but as active stewards capable of reshaping it for a more sustainable future.