{"id":125638,"date":"2025-10-14T09:19:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/?p=125638"},"modified":"2025-10-18T08:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:10:44","slug":"krater-collective-crafts-biodiversity-by-grazing-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/krater-collective-crafts-biodiversity-by-grazing-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Krater Collective Crafts Biodiversity by Grazing Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krater.si\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krater Collective<\/a><a id=\"ftnt_ref1\" href=\"#ftnt1\">*<\/a> is a group of artists, architects, designers, biologists, and many others, whose work is situated on a plateau above a 12-metre-deep hole dug by extracting gravel (you figure the name) on the grounds of former military barracks. Owned by the Slovenian Ministry of Justice, which now leases this 1.8-hectare piece of land for temporary use on an annual contract, the conditions of a construction fence left the space unkempt for almost three decades before officially allowing the human hand to actively participate in the spontaneous ecosystem evolving there.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-125638 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KraterDebra2024_043.jpg' title=\"Krater Collective.\" data-rl_title=\"Krater Collective.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KraterDebra2024_043-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-126503\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KraterDebra2024_043-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KraterDebra2024_043-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KraterDebra2024_043-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KraterDebra2024_043.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KraterDebra2024_043-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-126503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KraterDebra2024_043-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KraterDebra2024_043-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KraterDebra2024_043-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KraterDebra2024_043.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-126503'>\n\t\t\t\tKrater Collective.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>This year, <a href=\"https:\/\/landezine-award.com\/krater-ljubljana-creative-laboratory-in-a-construction-pit-by-prostoroz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krater Collective received a 2025 LILA Special Recognition<\/a>. The jury noted Krater\u2019s \u201ccapacity to open space for multispecies encounter via humility and restraint\u201d, and its refusal to aestheticise ruin as spectacle. In the following article, we speak of Krater, tackling the question of new urban nature typologies and connecting those spontaneous pockets into large-scale biodiversity infrastructures, activated by maintenance \u2014 or care. While <a href=\"https:\/\/landezine-award.com\/gironas-shores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Girona Shores<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/landscape-architects\/emf-landscape-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EMF<\/a> is seen as an exemplary project, many cities and practitioners struggle with the temporality of such endeavours, and with a lack of tools or systemic support. Municipalities do have maintenance schedules and regimes for specific public spaces, yet these are largely not acted upon, or refined enough to contribute to continuous urban landscapes that would allow for greater biodiversity and resilience.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-125638 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BanketPodivjanihZasedb_071.jpg' title=\"Banquet of Feral Occupations. Krater Collective for 35th Graphic biennial Ljubljana, 2023.\" data-rl_title=\"Banquet of Feral Occupations. Krater Collective for 35th Graphic biennial Ljubljana, 2023.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BanketPodivjanihZasedb_071-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-126504\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BanketPodivjanihZasedb_071-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BanketPodivjanihZasedb_071-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BanketPodivjanihZasedb_071-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BanketPodivjanihZasedb_071.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BanketPodivjanihZasedb_071-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-126504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BanketPodivjanihZasedb_071-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BanketPodivjanihZasedb_071-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BanketPodivjanihZasedb_071-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BanketPodivjanihZasedb_071.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-126504'>\n\t\t\t\tBanquet of Feral Occupations. Krater Collective for 35th Graphic biennial Ljubljana, 2023.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The old chestnut formalist tree lines speak of a time before Krater, while the overgrowing spontaneity of pioneering pines and weeds from Japan and elsewhere reaches the novel urban ecosystem tag. When humans returned in 2020, they joined the emerging cohort of more than 220 species in a precarious way, similar to the space they are tending. While their moves are calculated, aimed at minimal interventions, and especially bringing attention to the eradication of such spaces and biodiversities due to the need for economic benefit, they do keep the invasives in check by creative ways of new materials production.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-125638 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PodivjaneKartografijeDresnika_031.jpg' title=\"Knotweed harvest to create pulp for Notweed paper. Slow disturbance events from the Series: Feral Occupations: \u2018Our labour is our infrastructure\u2019, Krater Collective for 35th Graphic biennial Ljubljana.\" data-rl_title=\"Knotweed harvest to create pulp for Notweed paper. Slow disturbance events from the Series: Feral Occupations: \u2018Our labour is our infrastructure\u2019, Krater Collective for 35th Graphic biennial Ljubljana.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-3\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PodivjaneKartografijeDresnika_031-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-126505\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PodivjaneKartografijeDresnika_031-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PodivjaneKartografijeDresnika_031-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PodivjaneKartografijeDresnika_031-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PodivjaneKartografijeDresnika_031.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PodivjaneKartografijeDresnika_031-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-126505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PodivjaneKartografijeDresnika_031-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PodivjaneKartografijeDresnika_031-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PodivjaneKartografijeDresnika_031-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PodivjaneKartografijeDresnika_031.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-126505'>\n\t\t\t\tKnotweed harvest to create pulp for <a href=\"https:\/\/trajna.com\/project\/notweed-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notweed paper<\/a>. Slow disturbance events from the <em>Series: Feral Occupations: \u2018Our labour is our infrastructure\u2019,<\/em>  Krater Collective for 35th Graphic biennial Ljubljana.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>While landscape architects are more or less successfully convincing their clients into less rigid designs where possible, acknowledging the need for incorporating openness for the future, following the knowledge and ideas accumulated through decades of observations, such void spaces are mostly not yet recognised as speculative biological hubs in need of new policies of protection by the officials. Krater Collective elevate the debate of the urban ecosystem typology by working on projects outside their fenced-off domain. We recently spoke at length with Debra Solomon on <a href=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/debra-solomon-multispecies-urbanism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multispecies Urbanism<\/a>, who joined Krater Collective on a recent two-year project, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/krater.si\/en\/projekti\/obrt-vsezivosti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crafting Biodiversity<\/a>. <\/em>The municipality was willing to lend the space, and through a seemingly artistic project, a rather subversive practice emerged. The team worked in public greenspace, fencing off parts of the land throughout the city, changing their care regimes and introducing phased mowing to increase biodiversity through maintenance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ecological succession is not a neutral process. It is shaped by institutions. Whether cities produce turfgrass monocultures or biodiverse meadows and wetlands depends on policy, budgets, and regulatory vision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id='gallery-4' class='gallery galleryid-125638 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/parcelaOgled_002.jpg' title=\"Crafting biodiversity parcel meets Hearth Summit visitors during the summer drought, 2024.\" data-rl_title=\"Crafting biodiversity parcel meets Hearth Summit visitors during the summer drought, 2024.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/parcelaOgled_002-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-4-126238\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/parcelaOgled_002-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/parcelaOgled_002-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/parcelaOgled_002-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/parcelaOgled_002.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/parcelaOgled_002-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-4-126238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/parcelaOgled_002-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/parcelaOgled_002-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/parcelaOgled_002-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/parcelaOgled_002.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-4-126238'>\n\t\t\t\t<em>Crafting biodiversity<\/em> parcel meets Hearth Summit visitors during the summer drought, 2024.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/adijo_zelenepuscave_080.jpg' title=\"Goodbye Green Deserts: The same location in early autumn.\" data-rl_title=\"Goodbye Green Deserts: The same location in early autumn.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/adijo_zelenepuscave_080-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-4-126436\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/adijo_zelenepuscave_080-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/adijo_zelenepuscave_080-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/adijo_zelenepuscave_080-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/adijo_zelenepuscave_080.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/adijo_zelenepuscave_080-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-4-126436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/adijo_zelenepuscave_080-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/adijo_zelenepuscave_080-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/adijo_zelenepuscave_080-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/adijo_zelenepuscave_080.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-4-126436'>\n\t\t\t\tGoodbye Green Deserts: The same location in early autumn. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>Nuances of Urban Green<\/h2>\n<p>There is official green and unofficial green, public and private green, recognised\/categorised and unrecognised\/uncategorised\u2014protected and precarious green. Designated green surfaces, such as parks or hedges along streets, are in public care, but there is also a vast surface of privately owned gardens and lands, as well as abandoned lots. Such uncategorised, unkempt green appears as \u201cferal lands,\u201d as the Krater Collective calls these self-developed ecologies. These often act as biodiversity hotspots, counterbalancing heat islands and the lack of food for the animal kingdom, while designated green surfaces are heavily managed and burnt out in the height of the summer season. As Debra Solomon puts it: \u201cEcological succession is not a neutral process. It is shaped by institutions. Whether cities produce turfgrass monocultures or biodiverse meadows and wetlands depends on policy, budgets, and regulatory vision.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-5' class='gallery galleryid-125638 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F25-5-1.jpg' title=\"Feral lands, uncategorised biodiversity hotspots.\" data-rl_title=\"Feral lands, uncategorised biodiversity hotspots.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-5\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F25-5-1-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-5-126236\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F25-5-1-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F25-5-1-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F25-5-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F25-5-1.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F25-5-1-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-5-126236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F25-5-1-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F25-5-1-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F25-5-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F25-5-1.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-5-126236'>\n\t\t\t\tFeral lands, uncategorised biodiversity hotspots.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>Connective Corridors<\/h2>\n<p><em>Crafting Biodiversity<\/em> engages local residents, public institutions, biologists, designers, infrastructure activists, landscape architects, city officials, and multispecies actors \u2014 in a biodiversity-boosting project\u2014imaginatively connecting 18 selected lots into an ecological corridor with the potential to reach the green hinterland and nature-protected areas. In doing so, the project addresses fragmented biodiversity and seeks to stitch these fragments together while enhancing existing ecologies. By overstepping established governance boundaries, it offers a critique of partial mapping and official green-infrastructure development plans. <em>Crafting Biodiversity<\/em> recognises the importance of already existing structures and works through incremental, small-scale adjustments.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-6' class='gallery galleryid-125638 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11_IkeaPark4-1.jpg' title=\"Crafting Biodiversity, with the collaboration of the private owner, exposed this fenced lot to a changed regime.\" data-rl_title=\"Crafting Biodiversity, with the collaboration of the private owner, exposed this fenced lot to a changed regime.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-6\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11_IkeaPark4-1-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-6-126435\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11_IkeaPark4-1-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11_IkeaPark4-1-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11_IkeaPark4-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11_IkeaPark4-1.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11_IkeaPark4-1-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-6-126435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11_IkeaPark4-1-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11_IkeaPark4-1-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11_IkeaPark4-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11_IkeaPark4-1.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-6-126435'>\n\t\t\t\t<em>Crafting Biodiversity<\/em>, with the collaboration of the private owner, exposed this fenced lot to a changed regime.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>Methods of Crafting Biodiversity<\/h2>\n<p>New parks often prioritise visual appeal and real-estate value over ecological function. The consequence is an ecological monoculture, maintained through standardised practices: frequent mowing, ornamental plantings, and a deep distrust of spontaneous growth. As Gaja Me\u017enari\u0107 Osole notes, \u201cExisting urban greenspaces are over-managed according to opaque maintenance guidelines that fail to respond to biodiversity needs.\u201d <em>Crafting Biodiversity<\/em> changes dominant maintenance regimes by applying techniques such as phased mowing and \u201cecological transplantations\u201d from nearby feral patches. These interventions resist homogenisation and restore ecological agency to urban spaces not categorised as \u2018conservation\u2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Care is a design act. Maintenance is the site of innovation, creating a new urban aesthetic: one of process, reciprocity, and repair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Phased mowing is a fairly simple maintenance technique that imitates grazing. In the first pass, in spring, only a third is mown. This allows flowers to develop seeds. Solomon continues: \u201cThen in June or July, we can mow a second third that overlaps a third of what we previously mowed in this first session.\u201d This produces different ages of plants: some with flowers, others going to seed, root systems of lighter plants developing, and heavier plants beginning to lignify and become woody. In autumn, the last phase cuts through half of the area, again overlapping by a third with another phase. In the meantime, paths and areas for regular use are mown regularly, as are the edges of meadows, to give a neat appearance. \u201cBut in this way, we have maybe ten different ages of plants, and ages where insects lay their eggs and have two-year or one-year cycles. They can mate, there\u2019s food for the birds, nectar for the insects \u2014 all kinds of insects \u2014 there\u2019s a place to hide, there\u2019s refuge. And this way, biodiversity increases very quickly with a very high impact,\u201d Debra concludes.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-7' class='gallery galleryid-125638 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01_MAOpark-6.jpg' title=\"Scheme of the phased mowing technique.\" data-rl_title=\"Scheme of the phased mowing technique.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-7\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01_MAOpark-6-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-7-126506\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01_MAOpark-6-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01_MAOpark-6-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01_MAOpark-6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01_MAOpark-6.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01_MAOpark-6-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-7-126506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01_MAOpark-6-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01_MAOpark-6-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01_MAOpark-6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01_MAOpark-6.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-7-126506'>\n\t\t\t\tScheme of the phased mowing technique. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_001.jpg' title=\"Some maintenance can be done by the community, but this image (or the title) should not mislead the reader that phased mowing is practised by hand only.\" data-rl_title=\"Some maintenance can be done by the community, but this image (or the title) should not mislead the reader that phased mowing is practised by hand only.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-7\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_001-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-7-126507\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_001-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_001-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_001-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_001.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_001-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-7-126507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_001-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_001-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_001-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_001.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-7-126507'>\n\t\t\t\tSome maintenance can be done by the community, but this image (or the title) should not mislead the reader that phased mowing is practised by hand only.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>Co-Stewarding<\/h2>\n<p>While the project is speculative, it is also very real. Photo documentation throughout the year and species inventories by biologists at different times have shown increased biodiversity in the hijacked lots. By observing changes attentively, these observations can inform further decisions. Krater\u2019s community embodies the ethos of multispecies stewardship. Their day-to-day presence\u2014observing, documenting, adjusting\u2014has generated a situated understanding of the site\u2019s dynamics. This shifted view moves beyond the concept of ecosystem services and acknowledges multispecies labour. \u201cThis shows how ecological repair is not solely the domain of the natural sciences,\u201d Gaja says, \u201cbut a collective project requiring multiple forms of knowledge and experience.\u201d In this sense, stewardship becomes both ecological and cultural. This expanded sense of care as co-production destabilises the anthropocentric view of urban planning. It situates cities as assemblages of labour\u2014fungal, vegetal, animal, and human\u2014each indispensable to the others\u2019 survival.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-8' class='gallery galleryid-125638 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/simpozij_obrtvsezivosti_smrekar_013.jpg' title=\"Event upon &quot;returning biodiversed&quot; lots to the municipality.\" data-rl_title=\"Event upon &quot;returning biodiversed&quot; lots to the municipality.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-8\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/simpozij_obrtvsezivosti_smrekar_013-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-8-126434\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/simpozij_obrtvsezivosti_smrekar_013-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/simpozij_obrtvsezivosti_smrekar_013-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/simpozij_obrtvsezivosti_smrekar_013-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/simpozij_obrtvsezivosti_smrekar_013.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/simpozij_obrtvsezivosti_smrekar_013-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-8-126434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/simpozij_obrtvsezivosti_smrekar_013-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/simpozij_obrtvsezivosti_smrekar_013-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/simpozij_obrtvsezivosti_smrekar_013-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/simpozij_obrtvsezivosti_smrekar_013.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-8-126434'>\n\t\t\t\tEvent upon &#8220;returning biodiversed&#8221; lots to the municipality.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>Crafting Long-Term Ecological Relations<\/h2>\n<p>At the core of <em>Crafting Biodiversity<\/em> lies a simple but radical proposition: that care is a design act. Maintenance becomes the site of innovation, creating a new urban aesthetic\u2014one of process, reciprocity, and repair\u2014cultivating diverse meadowscapes. At the project\u2019s conclusion, the pilot biodiverse parcels were \u201creturned\u201d to the city and its residents, testing whether this practice could transition from artistic experiment to municipal policy.<\/p>\n<p>Osole sums up the effort: \u201cLand rights movements have long resisted imperial domination to defend ecosystems\u2014a fight that persists in cities today as communities push for urban tree replanting, clean water, community gardens, feral ecologies, and legal recognition of nature, while many cities\u2014including Ljubljana\u2014lag in integrating multispecies perspectives into official biodiversity governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe role of civil society,\u201d says Gaja, \u201cis to continually push governing bodies to govern better. There is no endpoint, no moment when the work is done.\u201d By recognising the agency of multispecies labour, the care and crafting of biodiversity infrastructures become of great value.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-9' class='gallery galleryid-125638 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_012.jpg' title=\"Biodiversity Ranger. Phased mowing adopted by the Museum of Architecture and Design, who commissioned the Crafting Biodiversity project within the MADE IN: Platform for contemporary craft and design.\" data-rl_title=\"Biodiversity Ranger. Phased mowing adopted by the Museum of Architecture and Design, who commissioned the Crafting Biodiversity project within the MADE IN: Platform for contemporary craft and design.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-9\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_012-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-9-125679\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_012-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_012-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_012-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_012.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_012-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-9-125679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_012-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_012-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_012-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kosnja_012.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-9-125679'>\n\t\t\t\tBiodiversity Ranger. Phased mowing adopted by the Museum of Architecture and Design, who commissioned the <em>Crafting Biodiversity<\/em> project within the MADE IN: Platform for contemporary craft and design.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14_Soca-4.jpg' title=\"Crafting biodiversity.\" data-rl_title=\"Crafting biodiversity.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-9\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14_Soca-4-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-9-126508\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14_Soca-4-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14_Soca-4-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14_Soca-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14_Soca-4.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14_Soca-4-1270x846.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-9-126508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14_Soca-4-1270x846.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14_Soca-4-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14_Soca-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14_Soca-4.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-9-126508'>\n\t\t\t\tCrafting biodiversity.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>*All images <em>made by<\/em> Amadeja Smrekar.<\/p>\n<p>Authors of the project: Gaja Me\u017enari\u0107 Osole, Andrej Koruza (Trajna\/Krater collective) with Debra Solomon.<\/p>\n<p>Collaborators: Renata \u0160ifrar, Karl Kaisel, Regina Vit\u00e1ny, Amadeja Smrekar, Danny Shaw, Katja Koncilja, Iva \u0160pilak, Altan Jurca Avci, Rok Oblak, Katja Kola\u010di\u010d, Darko Petan, Tadej Golob.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners: <a href=\"https:\/\/mao.si\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Museum of Architecture and Design<\/a>, Ljubljana.<br \/>\n<a id=\"ftnt1\" href=\"#ftnt_ref1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ftnt1\" href=\"#ftnt_ref1\">*<\/a><em>\u00a0The Krater Collective is a group of transdisciplinary artists who have decided to transform their professions, studios and working conditions in order to act as advocates for a self-determined ecosystem in an abandoned construction pit in Ljubljana. As the pit is constantly on the verge of extinction, they cultivate a creative resilience to confront the urgency by inventing innovative tactics, events and formats, and by addressing administrative and other constraints as objects of artistic intervention. These actions call for alliances and community economies that open up new fields of regenerative, relational and critical creative practice. In addition to pledged practices such as the nurturing of biodiversity, Krater also hosts internationally renowned educational formats presenting new typologies of cultural work, laboratories for experimentation with biomaterials, exhibitions, conferences and other public programmes. Krater was a finalist for the NEB Award (2022), received a special mentions at the <a href=\"https:\/\/35.bienale.si\/en\/artists\/krater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">35th Graphic Biennial (2023)<\/a> and the LILA, Landezine international landscape award (2025) and was awarded the Ple\u010dnik Medal for the best Public Space (2023).<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>The catalogue of the MADE IN project, where Po\u017ear interviews Osole and Solomon, from which we draw some points and quotes:<\/p>\n<p>Me\u017enari\u0107 Osole, G., &amp; Solomon, D. (2025). <em>Crafting Biodiversity: Design Innovation for Ecological Futures<\/em> (in conversation with C. Po\u017ear, interview). In C. Po\u017ear, I. Borovnjak, &amp; K. Vlajo (Eds.), <em>Future Legacies: MADE IN Platform for Contemporary Crafts and Design<\/em>. Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana.<\/p>\n<p>Crafting biodiversity builds on the critical discourse and accompanying actions co-developed with architect Danica Sretenovi\u0107, which work as an advocacy strategy to integrate feral ecosystems into the urbanism of future-resilient cities.<\/p>\n<p>See:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativeimpact.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/danica-sretenovic_publiv-version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>An Exercise in Feral Cartographies<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/koozarch.com\/essays\/the-feral-palace-education-as-a-design-urgency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/koozarch.com\/essays\/the-feral-palace-education-as-a-design-urgency<\/a>, and<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/voices.skd.museum\/en\/krater-project-from-a-feral-plant-to-a-feral-site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From a Feral Plant to a Feral Site<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Krater Collective is a group of transdisciplinary artists who have decided to transform their professions, studios and working conditions in order to act as advocates for a self-determined ecosystem in an abandoned construction pit in Ljubljana. 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