SEEDLING WORLDS
There are times when we cannot
do anything else but save a seed
Workshop
When: Saturday, 7.11.2026, 15:00-17:30
Where: < rotor >, Volksgartenstraße 6a, Graz

With: Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov,
Free Home University, Lecce

In Englisch language.
Limited number of participants—please register!
Email to rotor@mur.at, call to +43/316/688306

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Seeds carry memories of resistance and subsistence, but also of colonization, appropriation, exploitation. They carry ancestral knowledges that refused to disappear; they are portals into more rebellious and just futures, medicine for our biological and social soil. Seeds are teachers of other ways of living, learning, and relating to the world.

Seed justice practices—defending, reproducing, sharing, and reclaiming seeds—are ways of cultivating worlds rooted in reciprocity, biodiversity, care, interdependence, and solidarity, relating across territories, communities, and species.

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 workshop 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.
https://marktderzukunft.at/

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