Project Week with Crip Theory and Wearable Utopias

Come on through for the first in the Crip Earth (Re)generation (CERG) online talk and workshop series. Hosted by South African artist, writer and researcher Kopano Maroga (they/them), featuring our first guest: farmer, forager, archer, storyteller and ritualist Z Liberacion (they/he)! Let's learn together what art, disability and land work can teach us about repair.

Z Liberacion (they/he) is a child of Guna Yala, Panama and a full spectrum doula co-facilitating collective care spaces for healing, wellness & survival in Philadelphia, PA, Lenapehoking (native name: Lenni Lenape) on a 2 year old urban farm & Addison County, VT, N'dakinna (native name: Abenaki) on a 1 year old rural farm, focussing on Black & Brown, queer & transgender, disabled folks like themselves.

Crip Earth (Re)Generation (CERG) is an artistic research project that seeks to nurture and explore relations of repair at the crossroads of artistic practice, disability and our connection to the land. The project is led by artist, researcher, dramaturg and lecturer Bauke Lievens in collaboration with a team of artistic co-researchers Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Kopano Maroga, Louis Vanhaverbeke, Peter Aers, Tineke De Meyer and Tumba Kiambi.

The online talk and workshop series is imagined as a space to hear from and work with practitioners working at the intersections of art, disability, land and repair.

The sessions are free to the public upon registration. We would love to have you with us.

DM us on instagram or email us directly to register, or for more information.

Together with the Ju|’hoansi community of Nhoma and Tsumkwe (Namibia), Future Footwear Foundation is happy to announce that the book Tju|ho: Thoughtful Ways of Making and Walking, is ready for world-wide orders and will be launched on 9 October 2025 at The British Library.

The launch will bring together voices from design, anthropology, cognitive archaeology, community building and regenerative practices of knowledge exchange.

With an introduction by Darla-Jane Gilroy and moderated by Liz Ciokajlo, the event brings together voices from education, research, and industry: Festus Soroab (Village Schools, Nyae Nyae Conservancy, Namibia), Anca Usurelu(KASK & Conservatorium, FFF), Galahad Clark (Vivobarefoot), Lambros Malafouris (University of Oxford), Kristiaan D'Août D’Août (University of Liverpool), and Catherine Willems (KASK & Conservatorium, FFF). Looking forward to a lively exchange across disciplines and geographies.

The event is affiliated with the research cluster The Body Plural and The British Library, and co-organised by the Future Footwear Foundation and the Global Footwear Future Coalition.

Bauke Lievens invites you to the launch of what smells like a digital compost pile aka archive aka new website: circusdialogues.com

The Circus Dialogues (continued) is an artistic research project into the question “How to continue?” within the circus field. From there, The Circus Dialogues (continued) thinks through sustainability, care and violence in circus. The project builds on two earlier research projects led by Bauke Lievens: Between being and imagining: Towards a methodology for artistic research in circus (2013-2017) and The Circus Dialogues (2018-2020).