ECOVERSITIES ALLIANCE
Learning with land. Towards
regenerative approaches to education
Lecture
When: Saturday, 7.11.2026, 19:00
Where: < rotor >, Volksgartenstraße 6a, Graz

With: Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov,
Free Home University, Lecce
member of the Ecoversities Alliance
ecoversities.org

In Englisch language.

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The Ecoversities Alliance is a planetary network of learners, educators, and communities engaged in reimagining education through diverse knowledge systems and transformative pedagogies grounded in ecological awareness, relationality, and situated practices.

A conversation around the Alliance’s principles and practices, inviting reflection on the possibilities and challenges of co-creating learning spaces in more plural, interconnected ways of knowing, in relation to Earth and human and other-than-human communities.

Alessandra Pomarico, curator, educator, author, organizer at the intersection of art, radical pedagogy, community building and activism, co-founder of Free Home University, Firefly Frequencies Radio Platform and Ecoversities Alliance among other projects and processes.

Nikolay Oleynikov, artist, curator, activist, musician, political refugee. Member of Chto Delat International, Arkady Kots Band, co-curator of Free Home University, author of “Sex of the Oppressed” (The Free Marxist Press) and co-editor with Alessandra Pomarico of “When the Roots Start Moving” (Archive Books).

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The lecture takes place in the framework of
AYOCOTL Seed Library for All
A place of learning. A common good. A growing network.

The AYOCOTL Seed Library for All is installed in the café room of < rotor >. First and foremost, it facilitates the storage and distribution of plant seeds, but it also collects information and specialist literature on the subject and provides a space for studying seeds and for discussion. In addition, a library of the soils of Graz is currently being established.

The Seed Library for All is a place of learning that combines local adaptation with the conservation of plant varieties and is run on a community basis. Here you can obtain seeds of varieties that have already been tried and tested locally, take your time, share experiences and work together to develop them further. However, the Seed Library only works if more seeds are returned than are taken. Without seeds, there would be no food, no clothing, no raw materials—no life as we know it. Seeds are a contract we have entered with our ancestors—and also with all those who will come after us. For thousands of years, people have been storing, exchanging and propagating seeds—often as a matter of course in their everyday lives.

Join in and become part of our growing seed network!

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The AYOCOTL Seed Library for All is a joint endeavour of < rotor > and the Graz based Forum of Urban Gardening. Andreas Motschiunig, Daniela Brasil, Florian Perl and Margarethe Makovec came up with the idea; Gunda Bachan, Dagmar Holzapfel, Josef Obermoser and many others helped to bring it to life.

Alessandra Pomaricco is coming to Graz in collaboration with the Market of the Future, where she will be taking part in the programme on Friday 6 November.
marktderzukunft.at

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