ONGOING
The project uses plant seed dispersal and germination strategies as an artistic research framework for knowledge exchange and network-building across Nordic countries. Drawing from botanical processes such as ingestion, wind dispersal, waterborne travel, attachment, and self-propulsion, we explore how knowledge, memory, and cultural wisdom can travel across distances while remaining intact. Inspired by the work of Stefano Mancuso - ‘The Nation of Plants’; we look to explore ways of transporting wisdom from the source, the seeds that have created networks. Each dispersal method informs a different artistic methodology. Ranging from embodied workshops and oral knowledge-sharing to open, low-resource public interventions and cross-border collaborations. Through this approach, the project develops a living network that values slowness, adaptability, care, and sustainability, positioning participants not only as contributors but as carriers of shared knowledge beyond the project’s duration.
Transfer x wilder kitchen x losaeter x Holtabacken Nature + Culture Association
The aim of the network is to strengthen our art ecology grass root projects by growing resilience through exchange of knowledge and experience. We aim for a long time impact but face challenges in terms of funding and human resources. We want to strengthen our position aside bigger entities such as property owners, municipalities and established institutions, to ensure the diversity of small art ecology projects that prove to have a major impact, adding value to the local community and across disciplines. This project wants to furthermore get inspired by the creativity of seeds when they seek to grow and secure survival of their own kind. By applying biomimicry we become active carriers of knowledge while cultivating care, slowness, and mutual responsibility. We aim to build a long lasting resilient Nordic network: Through workshops, regular exchange and community meals we want to grow a network that possibly can expand and grow including more initiatives in the nordics.
Transfer
Multispecies community project and artistic research
Copenhagen, Denmark
Conspiring with the wilding garden of the old-amass restaurant we steward this community space, created a seed library and research biodiversity in the postindustrial neighbourhood of Refshaleøen. Through gatherings, gardening, building, observing and noticing we have been resisting eviction and establishing acknowledgment for wild decaying spaces in the middle of Copenhagen. This space holds one of the highest densities of species in the city and is in constant danger of erasure. It is an experimental lab for the living and collaborates with the arts, architecture, food and agriculture as well as the neighbourhoods community. The project is currently co-run by transfer collective. It functions as public space that welcomes everybody and is non-commercial. All materials are reused or sourced carefully.
For more information and the projects activity see: www.instagram.com/transfer.cph
Holtabacken Nature Culture Association
The Island of Ven, Sweden
The aim of Holtabacken Nature Culture Association is to conduct non-profit activities for knowledge and engagement in culture and nature, with a specific goal of organizing trans-local arts-based collaborations dedicated to ecological regeneration, community participation, and knowledge exchange. The association promotes, initiates, and manages processes where planetary perspectives are understood from the local point of view, and vice versa. The association is aimed at people of all ages, regardless of background, and works to counteract all forms of discrimination. Holtabacken Nature Culture Association was founded in 2025, and has per January 2026 33 members from Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, and Denmark. More about Holtabacken Nature Culture Association: NaturKulturVen.org
Losæter, Oslo
Originally established in 2011 as an art project, Losæter has grown steadily over the years. Today, the site includes fields of ancient grains, living soil, raised beds, vegetable gardens, composting systems, a public bakehouse, and a wide range of activities. These are led by groups such as Bybonden, Bakelauget, Sansehagen, and many others. The project was developed by the artist collective Futurefarmers on commission from Bjørvika Utvikling. Loseter.no