HUMUS sapiens retreat 2019

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Important last-minute announcements

What to bring:

  • good mood and an open mind
  • complete bed linen or sleepingbag + sheet(!) - otherwise it will be 10€/night
  • everything you need for your experiments
  • if you can, it would be great if you could bring some food (but i think we have enough)
  • a book for the open library

for questions, please write to [malte@mikrobiomik.org]

How to arrive:

  • individually - as described below
  • shuttle from the sbahn-station "Ebenhausen-Schäftlarn" at 15:05 PM and 17:05 PM



18:00 - 20:00 official opening 'ceremony' ;)

HUMUS sapiens

This year we meet from 25.-27.10.2019 in the woods near Munich.

Please write to humus@mikrobiomik.org on which days you would like to be there (with or without accommodation), and whether you already have a topic / project idea in mind or would like to give a workshop.

What

Soil creation and regeneration requires a tightly intertwined and interwoven network of organisms and matter, from microbes to animals and plants. The crosstalk between all of those compounds enables seeds to sprout on fertile soil.

We believe that this diversity is always the key to creativity and innovation: HUMUS sapiens creates interdisciplinary crosstalk and collaboration from scientists, biohackers, artists and ecologists to farmers and gardeners, to share and build knowledge and tools for soil analysis and regeneration

The Global Hackteria Network , Gasthaus: Fermentation and Bacteria and the mikroBIOMIK Society gather their resources to rethink the way we deal with our mother earth.

Links

HUMUS sapiens homepage
Event overview

When

The retreat will take place from Friday noon, 25th October until Sunday 27th October evening.

Where - Hosting & Accommodation

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The Projekt Draussen, also known as `Klause zum Schindergraben` is in the middle of the woods close to the Isar. In the upper floor under the roof is a cozy space where up to 20 people can be hosted in individual beds. From there you have access to a small terrace to enjoy a calm moment. There are more two smaller rooms with loft beds which have access to the balcony directed to the south from where you can see the little river and catch sun all day long. Feel free to bring your sleeping bag, bedsheets can be also available. You can also bring your tent and mount it in any place of the territory.


How to get there

Projekt Draussen is located about 30 km in the South of Munich in the woods and close to the Isar.

Schindergraben 1, 82544 Egling

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By bicycle The bicycle tour along the Isar takes about 1-2 hours. There are the following possibilities:

  • You start with your mountain bike on the Isar, for example in Munich at the Wittelsbacherbrücke, and orient yourself on the bike tour "Munich - Kloster Schäftlarn".
  • Or you climb on your racing bike in Munich, choose an Isar site and orient yourself on one of these routes.

By public transport and walking

With the S-Bahn S7 direction Wolfratshausen you arrive from the Munich Marienplatz either in 33 minutes to Hohenschäftlarn or in 36 minutes to Ebenhausen-Schäftlarn.

From the S-Bahn station Ebenhausen-Schäftlarn, you can prepare for an Isar walk: route

If you need a Shuttle please send us an email! (humus@mikrobiomik.org)


By car

From Munich it takes about 30-40 min to reach Projekt Draussen by car following A95 or B11.

Impressions from last year

More on this wiki:
https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/MikroBIOMIK_Soil_Retreat

Retreat schedule and food

Schedule

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preliminary schedule


Friday (from noon)

  • Arrive, meet and tune (there will be fancy snacks)
  • 18:00 - 20:00 'opening ceremony' (led by Carlos de Paz)
  • In the early evening: Content structuring in the sense of an "unconference", planning of sessions and workshops
  • Campfire (the weather will be great) and possibly/probably first project work

Saturday

  • Excursion, Microscopy, discussion rounds,...
  • soil scanning and respiration
  • Analysis of soil composition (physical, chemical)
  • Free work and exchange on the respective areas of interest

Sunday

  • Free work and further workshops
  • Documentation of the projects
  • Summary



Food

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Most of the food is self-grown donated or salvaged.
Thanks @naturkraftwerke.com for donations!!

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Projects, Presentations & Discussions

Liquid carbon pathway (discussion)

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How does carbon get into the soil?
How do plants influence humus production?
How can we enhance the liquid carbon pathway?


Root scanner

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https://wurzelfenster.org/



We build several Wurzelfenster ('root windows') in different formats.
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Lukas also configured a scanner to record some timelapses.
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-> Malte und Olga were able to build two "wurzelfenster" with Lukas. Malte plans to use it to display mycorrhizae interactions with plants perspectively.



Mycorrhiza and other symbiotic fungi

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Malte was giving a presentation on the use of mycorrhiza for gardening and agriculture.

We are now planing to collect and compile comprehensible instructions for using mycorrhiza in your garden. Stay tuned. :)


Microscopy

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Workshop "Mikroskopie mit dem Handy" - Matthias Burba (Mitschriften von Malte Larsen, bitte gerne ergänzen)

Es gibt 2 grundlegende Systeme, endlose und endliche. Die Adapter müssen verschieb/verstellbar sein um den nicht-optimalen Fokus des Handys optimieren zu können. Der Autofokus muss durch eine App blockiert werden (Es gibt verschiedene Apps die sich bei Android und iOS unterscheiden, Namen leider nicht mitgeschrieben). 6-8 MP Auflösung sind mit einem billigem iPhone möglich (ca. 50€). (Nicon Coolpix wäre eine gut Kamera) Tubushalterungen sind online verfügbar für Handy oder Kamera. Ein externer Monitor zur Bildgebung während der Arbeit ist sehr komfortabel.

Aus Wisconsin gibt es 3d gedruckte Mikroskope mit Glaskugeln als günstige Objektive. (https://availabletechnologies.pnnl.gov/technology.asp?id=393) Eine dezentrale Lösung für Citizen Science.

"GPS Kamera" Software zur Speicherung definierter Metadaten in oder auf Fotos: Geschlossenes System zur Klassifizierung von Fotos, erleichtert es bei vielen Aufnahmen den Überblick zu behalten.

Eine Färbeanleitung findet man in der Mikrogruppe auf der Homepage vom Verein für Naturkunde Hamburg für Pilze.


Regenerative Agriculture

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by Hellmut



CO2 Chamber

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The CO2 Soil Respirtion Chamber can be used to measure the gas exchange between the soil, plants and atmosphere, as well temperature, pressure and humidity. The goal was to introduce simple techniques to help people understand biochemical cycles such soil respiration caused by microbial actvities or change of conditions by climate change. Also the data can be displayed and collected in a databank with a mobile app and be pushed threw the web for everybody to see and analyze. The next step for the CO2 chamber is to make it more easily accessible by making a new design that is a low cost and open hardware.




Citizen Sensor

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Robert Meisenecker presented a new prototype of the citizen sensor and introduced us into the technology. He also gave us some valuable insights about the challenges during this cooperation between Fraunhofer Institute and FabLab Munich.


LINKS:

CitizenSensor GitHub repo

Fraunhofer CitizenSensor website

FabLab München CitizenSensor website



Microbe Cinema

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Video about Radiolaria from Matthias:
https://vimeo.com/126851289


Open Library

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Participants

Hosts, Team, Co-Organizers

Julian Chollet

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Julian is a (no)mad scientist, curious student and informal teacher with a background in molecular biology. He is working on the endless and underexplored biodiverity of microbes, fungi and phages - with the aim to liberate the world from microphobia through workshopology, fermentation and microscopy. His current main project focuses on creative learning environments and public participation in science with emphasis on the invisible world.

https://mikrobiomik.org/en

Leandra Weber

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I study Communication Design at University of Applied Sciences Munich since 2015. I have a strong interest in how communication design can sensitize fellow human beings for good eco-friendly sustainable design.

Malte Larsen

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Researches experimental mushroom cultivation, practices lactic fermentation and develops innovative methods for the urban plant and fungal food production of the future.

Alumni of the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde

https://mikrobiomik.org/en/about-us

Olga Weiss

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Studies at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde "Landscape protection". Keen interest in animal biology and ecology.


Practitioners, Mentors and Workshopologists


Hellmut von Koerber

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Hellmut cooperates since 40 years with pioneers in organic farming. He supports increasing agro-ecosystems with information, workshops and networking. As an information scientist he founded flexinfo.ch offering flexible information systems (e.g. for statistics of organic market, fair trade and other sustainability labels at FiBL). Aim: transparent and open ResourceBalancing for regenerative agro-ecosystems.

hellmut.koerber@flexinfo.ch


Verena Friedrich (DE)

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Verena is an artist based in Cologne, Germany. Together with two other colleagues she is currently running the exMedia Lab (her focus being on DIY techniques, biological and ecological arts) at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She is interested in permaculture, gardening, composting, fermenting, environmental monitoring, programming, machine learning and many other things...

For more info and materials see her userpage.

Stefan Doepner (DE/SI)

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- robotic every day life poetics
- art robotic sound life noise philosophy
- social political participation
http://www.cirkulacija2.org - http://www.obrat.org - http://www.f18institut.org ...


Swantje Uphoff (DE)

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Swantje Uphoff is a filmmaker, living in Berlin. Right now she is researching footage for a film about sustainable agriculture and in that context also investigating the importance of humus. https://vimeo.com/user8236330

Florian Detig (DE)

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Compostology


Carlos de Paz (Peru/DE)

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Carlos is a nomadic Architect (who has lived in Peru, France and Germany), a transdisciplinary thinker and a metaphysical artist. In keeping with St. John of the Cross’s motto "to arrive to an unknown place, you must take an unknown path", he navigates through the blurry margins between Design, Complexity, Biology, Cognition, Physics, Teather, Biodance and Metaphysics. While living in Peru he has done various workshops, congresses, performances as well as installations: as co-founder of the “Atelier de la Carne: Metasensible Laboratory of the Body and the City”, or as co-director of the “Combi Project: Transdisciplinary Urban Reprogramming Laboratory”, he is and will continue to be a perpetual student, informal researcher, joyfull experimenter and inciter of the mindful understanding of love.


Detlef Schmitz (DE)

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Lukas Kaupenjohann (DE)

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Student - sustainable systems engineering


Matthias Burba

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.... grew up with microscopes, studied biology and law, decades of professional work at the interface of science and law, forensics, photomicrography (diatoms, foraminifera, desmidiaceen) with successful participation in competitions and major exhibitions at home and abroad, director of microscopically oriented working groups in the Natural Science Association in Hamburg, now in (non)retirement with the topic: "The essential is not visible to the (naked) eye" (The Little Prince)"


Remote and Virtual Collaborators

Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr (CH)

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Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr is a nomadic researcher and workshopologist and works in an integral way, combining science, art and education. He is part of the Center for Alternative Coconut Research and the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society (SGMK), co-founder of the global Hackteria network and co-organizer of the different editions of HackteriaLab 2010 - 2014 in Zürich, Romainmotier, Bangalore and Yogyakarta. Before travelling the world for making DIY / DIWO laboratories for creative biological experimentation with living media, Marc entered the world of DIY electronics, designing printed circuit boards for synthesizers and organizing workshops and festivals in Switzerland and Slovenia. He lives and works in Zürich, Yogyakarta and Taipei. He also loves coconuts.

http://me.dusjagr.guru

Janne "Pannu" Korhonen (FI)

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Janne Korhonen is a forest ecologist and atmospheric scientist, currently finishing his doctoral thesis at the Institute for atmospheric and earth system research (INAR) at University of Helsinki. His main research interest is transport of carbon and nitrogen compounds inside forest, and between forests and the atmosphere. In addition to his research, Janne is involved in on Climate Whirl project, focusing on intersection between science and arts, popularization of science and science education. His other interests are photography, video and all-kinds of measurement-related geeking, especially chamber measurements.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2679-5556

http://climatewhirl.fi/


Discourses

Hackteria HUMUS Sapiens Forum

Related Projects on this wiki

Activities in the HUMUS sapiens project which promotes open soil research started with RandeLab Soil Retreat in the beginning of May.