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Earthlings ~ a fanzine for soil

Three Rivers Temporary Compost Toilet, Bexley

Compost Toilet Co-design & Community Build @ Mile End Community Garden

Setting up a DIY facility for community soil testing and care (Pilot)

Microscope Gayzing @ Company Drinks

Quick Build - Temporary Public Toilet @ The Long Wall Ecology Garden

Connecting with compost through listening, touch and stories @ R-Urban

Building Community Beds @ Stepney City Farm

Co-designing composting @ Grow Lewisham

A person tips a bag of leaves into a pile of leaves to make leafmould — Soil Microscopy Sessions @ Architectural Association

A small wooden cladded building surrounded by trees with door slightly ajar — Compost Residency @ Bethnal Green Nature Reserve/ Phytology

Saturday 2 Mar 2024

Mile End Community Garden

Co-design Workshop

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Saturday 13 May 2023

Bridgehouse Gardens

Soil Ecology & Composting workshop

Saturday 12 Mar 2022

Abbey Gardens

Creative Compost Connections

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a collection of objects gathered from the park on a white background, objects include: a feather, thin pieces of dirty plastic, a piece of foam, leaves, bark etc. — Saturday 17 Jul 2021

Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

Ecologies of Care - Skill share, zine making and collaborations

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Title: Open Gardens Treasure Trail Map, illustrated map of 9 community gardens surrounding Middleton Green park in Bethnal green. The illustration shows some buildings, orange connecting roads, green and yellow squiggles and seeds dotted around. It also includes an exercise in English and Bengali for using the senses. Bethnal Green tube station is in the bottom right hand corner. — Earthlings ~ participatory storymaking, nature connection and queer ecology

Saturday 15 Aug 2020

Electric Dreams Festival

The Microbe Disco

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Colourful toilet cubicle with graffiti designs on the walls and door stands in an outdoor setting with trees and flats neaby — Quick Build - A temporary compost toilet @ Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

illustration of creatures moving through soil with multiple speech bubbles containing text relating to the themes of the project e.g. "mobilisation!", "contaminated soil", "ethics of care" & "soil companions". — Soil Nexus - Building Policy Tools for Water and Waste Based Urban Soil Remediation

Tuesday 30 Jun 2020

Hackney Union of Gardens, Cordwainers Grow

Community Composting Q&A

Retrofitting an accessible compost toilet and composting systems @ Abbey Gardens

4 people gather round a lap top and microscope in garden setting, with sunflower, pot plants and soil samples dotted around. One person is gesticulating and explaining something, someone else takes notes on a clipboard. — The Roving Microscope ~ exploring human-soil ecologies through the microscope

Sunday 14 Jul 2019

Rocky Park Community Garden

Earthlings Creative Writing workshop with Rocky Park Growers

Sunday 30 Jun 2019

Low Parkamoor Cottage, Grizedale Arts

Microscopic Lunch #3 with Dan Robinson

Thursday 20 Jun 2019

The Garrett Centre

Earthlings Creative Writing workshop with ELATT & Simple Gifts

Saturday 11 May 2019

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve

Microscopic Lunch #2

2 queers with matching t-shirts wield long metal thermometers in a garden in a residential area, looking pleased with themselves. — Partners in Slime: Thermal Composting Experiments in Hackney Downs, blog by Hari ~ March 2021

Friday 5 Apr 2019

Keddleston Community Centre

Microscopic Lunch #1

Herbalists Without Borders UK with Shumaisa Khan

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Thursday 21 Mar 2019

Monsoon [+ other] Grounds Symposium, University of Westminster

Soil & Sanitation Presentation

a spacious accessible toilet with dark blue hand rails, and pinkish-purpley walls. There is a large artwork on the wall adjacent to the toilet — Accessibility research @ Open Barbers

2 people lean over some seed trays in a polytunnel, sowing seeds — Soil care and crop rotation @ Calthorpe Community Garden

screen shot of zoom screen showing 20 thumbnails of guests at the microbe disco, they have colourful microbe inspired background and costumes, some people are dancing and others are watching — Dancing with the Microbes, by Linden, Ama & Hari for the Microbe Disco - August 2020

Radicle Plumbing, a story by Hari ~ June 2020

Sunday 8 Dec 2019

Lada Festive Fair, Garrett Centre

Connecting Words zine launch

side view of mobile, against blue bathroom wall. Hanging objects include: dried herbs, pill packets, syringe, laughing gas cannister, packagings in different languages, a cigarette box, a glass bottle containing soil — Mobile Matters ~ Constructing an alternative medicine cabinet with found objects

Land as Teacher by Linden Katherine McMahon

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The Future of Shit by Hari Byles

Attending to the Ground Beneath our Feet: Co-designing a community compost toilet in Bethnal Green by Hari Byles

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Sunday 7 Jul 2019

Shrublands Community Garden

Microscopic Lunch #4

Saturday 13 Jul 2019

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve

Earthlings Creative Writing workshop with Teesdale and Hollybush TRA

Saturday 20 Jul 2019

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve

Remaking the Soil Food Web

Wednesday 24 Jul 2019

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve

Earthlings Creative Writing Workshop with St Margaret’s House & Teesdale and Hollybush TRA

Sunday 25 Aug 2019

The Garrett Centre, Middleton Green & various gardens around Bethnal Green

Open Gardens Treasure Trail & Common Ground Festival

Sunday 1 Sep 2019

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve

Close Encounters with Materials and Microbes

Saturday 28 Sep 2019

Calthorpe Community Garden

Through the Microscope: The Lively Art of decomposition, fermentation and transformation

Sunday 27 Oct 2019

Spitalfields City Farm

Seed Stories and Symbionts

white wall with very faint pink smudge where writing may have been removed — Slippages: a blog about toilet graffiti by Hari ~ March 2017

Connecting Words: A fanzine for Bethnal Green

Compost Mentis #1: A quarantine zine about soil care

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Speculative Fiction, a video-poem by Linden K McMahon & Hari Byles

Roving Microscope Project Evaluation by Hari Byles, Melissa Thompson and Ellie Doney

drawings and diagrams of deep rooting plants with type written text stuck on at different angles reading: "relieve that compaction", "dandelion, chicory, ribwort plantain, salad Burnet, yarrow, borage, comfrey" — A Regenerative Seed Mix, blog by Olly ~ May 2020

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve

May - September 2018, Soil & Sanitation Programme

How to Facilitate Community Festivals on Public Land, report by Becky Turner

NFS London Community Cooks Handbook, by Will Dorman and Sean Roy Parker