This project explores how cultivated environments can serve as spaces for regenerative learning in art and design education. Through fieldwork in Japan and Switzerland, Loana Gatti investigates how embodied engagement with organic matter—such as soil, fibre, pigment, and food—can foster ecological awareness and cultural sustainability.
Rooted in eco-pedagogy, feminist ethics of care, and critical design theory, her research examines how learning through tending, growing, and making can support situated, collective, and sensory forms of knowledge. These practices are studied not only as technical or artistic acts, but also as social gestures of resistance and repair that connect learners with their environments and with each other.
The project foregrounds the tactile, temporal, and relational dimensions of learning with and through matter.
Image: © Chaco Trang
