#21 – Creative Resistance in Agri(culture) with Merel Zwarts

In this episode, Giulia meets with Merel Zwarts to discuss how creative practices can be applied to rethink our relationship with food, agriculture and history.

Merel is an artist, art pedagogue and researcher living and working in Utrecht. She has been a long-standing member of the artist collective The Outsiders which initiated the Traveling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills.

Following the thread of resistance, Merel takes us on a journey down the Leidsche Rijn, the home of the Travelling Farm Museum, telling us stories about challenges, adaptability, and the future of a sustainable urban-rural relationship.

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TIMESTAMPS:

(01:30) History of the Outsiders Collective

(03:50) Why Artists?

(07:12) Food + Agri(culture)

(11:43) How the "Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills" came into being

(20:32) Adaptability: Creating networks that are not there

(24:12) What is the future of a sustainable urban-rural relationship

(35:31) Forgotten Skills

(37:33) Agriculture in the Netherlands 

(42:45) Resistance

(48:17) What's next for the Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills