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In May 2026, at The Land School, BADS_lab convened a cohort of twenty-five artists and researchers around the prospect of generating maroon infrastructures: community-built systems for communicating and cultivating, playful and usable now, resilient when centralized systems fail.
The gathering centered on the building of a process germ bank — an experimental approach to preserving and sharing knowledge in its most nascent form. We invited each fellow to articulate small germs of their own creative practice: carryable seeds of ideas that other people in other contexts can grow in their own soil. Alongside, we drew inspiration from what was already germinating in the neighborhood around The Land School — the arrivant plants growing in the cracks and vacant lots of the South Side, the autonomous communications infrastructures we installed in the room, the questions surfacing from each fellow’s lifeworld. The repertoire that emerged will travel with the lab in September to São Paulo, and in December to Dar es Salaam.
This lab notebook lab documents the cohort's process, including germs produced, texts that shaped the conversations, exercises undertaken, and questions that animated the work.
Proceeds from this zine directly support the work of BADS_lab.
In May 2026, at The Land School, BADS_lab convened a cohort of twenty-five artists and researchers around the prospect of generating maroon infrastructures: community-built systems for communicating and cultivating, playful and usable now, resilient when centralized systems fail.
The gathering centered on the building of a process germ bank — an experimental approach to preserving and sharing knowledge in its most nascent form. We invited each fellow to articulate small germs of their own creative practice: carryable seeds of ideas that other people in other contexts can grow in their own soil. Alongside, we drew inspiration from what was already germinating in the neighborhood around The Land School — the arrivant plants growing in the cracks and vacant lots of the South Side, the autonomous communications infrastructures we installed in the room, the questions surfacing from each fellow’s lifeworld. The repertoire that emerged will travel with the lab in September to São Paulo, and in December to Dar es Salaam.
This lab notebook lab documents the cohort's process, including germs produced, texts that shaped the conversations, exercises undertaken, and questions that animated the work.
Proceeds from this zine directly support the work of BADS_lab.