During this talk, Seasonal Neighbours will present their work and discuss the many questions about co-habitation in the European countryside that keep them awake. Seasonal Neighbours came together as a collective of artistic researchers during the corona crisis by a call from two artist-architects aiming to research the contemporary countryside through the methods "learning by doing" and "research through making". An international collective of 16 early career and multidisciplinary artists and designers was formed, who all worked among seasonal labourers on a farm somewhere in Europe. Over the course of two years, they developed their own collective research approach, responding to a range of ethical questions concerning the engagement in complex environments with local actors of the countryside and relationships that emerge between them: the farmers and the workers, the permanent and the temporary residents, the plants and the humans.

This talk is related to the presentation and screening of the collective's work on June 3.