Use the recipe as a starting point to think beyond instructions. This workshop explores food as a language, looking at gestures, memories, and sensory elements around cooking and sharing. Through discussion and writing, participants deconstruct and rewrite recipes to express personal experiences, ideas, and stories connected to food.

Enter a jar where invisible life transforms food into new flavours and textures. This workshop introduces fermentation through tasting and shared making, as participants prepare a collective ferment together. Each person leaves with a living micro-ecosystem to care for, observe, and slowly understand through time.

Human hair, often discarded and slow to decompose, becomes a material for making biotextiles. This workshop introduces simple biomaterial and craft processes, inviting participants to experiment directly with hair and rethink its value. It opens a practical view on how overlooked resources can be transformed into usable materials.

Learn how to turn waste wood into biochar using a simple, low-tech process. Participants run a full cycle together, from firing a small kiln to producing charcoal, while using the heat to cook. The session connects soil health, carbon, and everyday practice, ending with shared food and material to take home.

Develop bioplastics using ingredients linked to the Portuguese landscape, such as Alentejo soils and water from the Tejo. Through guided mixing, heating, and casting, participants test how material choices affect outcomes. The focus is on process and decision-making, connecting hands-on work with local ecological conditions.

Work with plants and food scraps to dye textiles using simple folding and binding techniques. The leftover dye water is then reused to create biomaterials with agar agar and gelatine, testing open-source recipes. The session links hands-on making with material awareness and offers methods to continue experimenting.

Explore plant fibres as a local material, from corn husks to cork and brewing residues. Participants compare their properties and origins, then use bio-based binders to create small moulded objects. The workshop offers a practical way to understand how regional fibres can become useful materials.

Join a guided sound walk using headphones and specialised microphones to listen beyond human hearing—trees, soil, and water flows. Through recording and sharing, participants explore how listening to more-than-human worlds can inform their practice, opening new ways to think about design beyond human needs.