Hands and Mouths in Bog Poetics and Politics: Making Reed Hanging Gardens and Translating The Venice Agreement for Peatlands into Lithuanian
Current Project
Collaborator/s:
WETBEINGS Aukštumala ~ Arts, Science & Story Field Symposium
Workshop and Translation
2 June 2025
Banks of the Aukštumala River “Aukštumales Krantas”
with:
Jūratė Sendžikaitė (botanist, peatland restoration expert, Foundation for Peatland Restoration and Conservation, Vilnius) with Saulašarė - Sundew
The Venice Agreement is a unique effort to build trans-local and decolonial tools in peatland protection, assert the rights of peatlands through transdisciplinary collaborations and a bottom-up approach that recognizes local initiatives as key collaborators in the global process of peatland conservation. Conceived as a living document and a tool for conservation, it addresses climate crisis and biodiversity loss through direct conservation actions.
The Venice Agreement is a living document, a manifesto for bottom up peatland protection and an acknowledgement of peatlands as ancestors, as memory, as future. While making straw gardens from reed we talk about and collectively translate this document from our experiences and knowledges of Aukštumala Raised Bog.
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