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Festival européen Sols & Arts
European Soils & Arts Festival
2025–2026
Work-study placement at the French Soil Science Association (AFES), Caen, SOILSCAPE European project (Horizon Europe), September 2025 – July 2026
- Project officer, SOILSCAPE European project (work-study)
- Programming and artistic curation
- Festival communication
During my work-study placement at AFES, I produced a large part of the communication for the first European Soils & Arts Festival and took a major part in its programming, notably the selection of artists, as well as in events linked to the SOILSCAPE project.
Building national and international networks around soils, cultural (literacy) transitions and ecological awareness; artistic curation and coordination of artists and institutional partners for the first French festival on soils and art, and co-organisation of the Soils & Arts evening at World Soil Day; field data analysis and drafting of research syntheses, articles and scientific communications for specialist and general audiences (French and English).
Publication: Boyero, A. (2025). Using Soil Metaphors to Foster Shared Understanding and Sustainable Practices Among Farmers.
European Soils & Arts Festival 2026
- 21–24 May 2026
- First edition, Pays de la Loire (Angers and nearby)
The first European Soils & Arts Festival sets out to lift the veil on the richness of the underground world and on the importance of preserving it, combining artistic and scientific approaches.
Soils, the foundation of all life, provide essential ecological services and functions. Yet they remain invisible, ignored, underestimated and threatened by human activity. The Festival is a reason to come together to make soils visible, intelligible and desirable, and to shed light on this collective, educational, social, political, cultural, artistic and scientific issue. We want to open doors through art and culture, spread new narratives and invent forms of action that can re-enchant our relationship with this vital element.
The Soils & Arts Festival brings together arts, sciences and outreach around soils, to share soil science in a sensitive and accessible way, making it lively, desirable and open to as many people as possible.
