Practices of Encounter

Practices of Encounter works towards creating a culture of collaboration and mutual learning among partners and it is guided by Floating University (Germany). A series of in-person assemblies and online agoras offer moments for collective reflection on site-specific practices and interventions —questioning how they respond to place, evolve over time, and resonate across contexts. These ongoing exchanges keep methodologies open and adaptive.

Over time, the insights emerging from this process will be brought together in an Interactive Atlas —a sort of carrier bag— a collection of situated approaches for arts and culture practitioners working towards socio-ecological transformation.

Encounter #1 | Project Kick-off at Floating University Berlin

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Cultures of Hospitality

Hospitality is understood as a practice that extends beyond welcome. It involves creating conditions of attentiveness, where different forms of knowledge, experience, and presence are nurtured. Relational capacities such as listening, negotiating conflict, and holding space for disagreement are seen as necessary tools for working together across differences. Hospitality is then approached as a form of spatial and pedagogical care. Convivial settings—shared meals, collective maintenance, informal conversations—serve as frameworks for exchange, helping to shift power relations and redistribute responsibility within the project space.