Welcome to: The Atlas of Return, a workshop with Weaving Realities arts collective!
When: June 19, 3 to 5 pm
Where: Gaia Plateau (1. floor)
Open for everybody, sign up below!
In this embodied workshop, led by Yuchen Li, we explore the intimate connections between memory, food, and land through the practices of senti-pensar (thinking-feeling) and corpo-territorial cartografía (body-territory mapping). Drawing on ancestral knowledge and somatic awareness, participants will be guided through a meditative, mindful experience with food—engaging the senses to awaken memory and presence.
From this grounded encounter, we move into a process of mapping our bodies as our first territories—bodies inseparable from the living, breathing lands we inhabit. Guided by the cardinal directions, we invite a reverent return to the elemental coordinates that orient us in relationship with Earth and each other.
This practice invites reflection on food not only as nourishment but as a vessel of ancestral memory, cultural coordinates, and seeds for reimagining relational worlds. In a time when food systems are increasingly abstracted and commodified, this workshop offers a space for re-rooting in embodied knowledge, memory, and belonging.
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