A Working Exhibition On How Material Practices Drive Soil Health

4pm Exhibition Open to Public / 6pm Public Discussion

As the first of Yale School of Architecture’s summer program in Senegal, in partnership with RAW Material Company, the 2024 “Soil Sisters” program explores the complex opportunities and challenges of such material practices in today’s domestic and global material economy. Engaging past, existing and emergent narratives around intersectoral material practices, the working exhibition “Soil Stories” explores connections and establishes relational impacts between the many hands that intersect with material lives including farmers, designers, scientists, community leaders, artists, entrepreneurs and others over time. 

“Soil Stories” explores building, agricultural, salt mining, textile and plastic products not solely as a problem or solution, but instead places them in context of meaningful narratives and complex practices in Senegal and beyond. At 6pm on Friday, June 14th, a public discussion will explore with partners new criteria for material development, reestablish ties between material communities,  link both traditional and emerging sources of knowledge and entrepreneurial activity as well as reimagine interconnected material futures centred on soil health.