Soil Week Residency
Open soil research in the Haloze field lab
9–13 May 2022
This week Zavod Rizoma hosted two open soil researchers in our Haloze field lab as they developed projects in conjunction with the UROŠ project.
Residents
- Malte Larsen — Developed and built a prototype fungal bioreactor based on the Johnson bioreactor
- Julian Chollet — Developed and rehearsed a radial soil chromatography workshop
Projects
Fungal Bioreactor
Malte Larsen worked on developing a prototype bioreactor for cultivating beneficial soil fungi, based on the Johnson-Su bioreactor design. This open hardware approach to soil biology aims to make fungal inoculants accessible to small-scale farmers and gardeners.
Radial Soil Chromatography
Julian Chollet from Humus Sapiens developed a workshop format for radial chromatography — a visual method for assessing soil health through paper chromatography. The technique produces distinctive circular patterns that reveal information about soil biology and organic matter.
Supported By
This residency was supported by Zavod Rizoma, the Hackteria Network and the mikroBIOMIK Society as part of UROŠ, a project within the EU funded KonS Platform for contemporary investigative art.
