"Digging"

The research area of trenching pursues the goal of sensitising city dwellers to an urban and sustainable way of life and thus to understand and learn to preserve the soil as a resource in this central role and to learn to preserve it. This relates to to the three central pillars of sustainability in terms of the ecological, social and economic economic properties of the soil.

Active participation and the stimulation of collaborative processes are an important object of research in the context of our research and the future investigation of the method of digging and its added value of an everyday practice. Through this approach, subjective, emotional and physical dimensions of digging become visible. The practice of digging is innovative from this point of view, because it also examines the physicality and the "making" from a social science and artistic perspective and scrutinises it against this background. The exploration of digging as a method places the actively acting human being at the centre of the question and illuminates the methodological approach to the confrontation with the urban space surrounding us and the soil as a central resource. In this context, soil can be understood as material artefact and/or emotional ground that creates ontological security be understood. The stabilising character trait that is thus attributed to the soil and which disappears in moments of crisis, demonstrates in particular the the current urgency of engaging with the method of digging, which offers a participatory and participatory and emancipatory method that offers the space to take action ourselves and to actively actively and multilayeredly engage with the place in which we live.