Adventurous Homemaking: Exploring Collaborations toward Agroecological Probabilities

Markus Wernli (2020)

This research investigates how attending to the basic needs of human bodily existence is mobilising transpersonal abilities toward integrative flourishing. Rearranging human-environment relations through the self-contracted crafting of daily life, requires courage, bodily engagement and failure tolerance. Through contemporising the co-regulating exchanges of fermentation, this study engages people’s bodyminds as biophysical agents in socio-natural ecologies which starts with their digestive byproducts—human ‘waste’, whereby human ‘waste’ becomes an integral element inside a self-contracted goal pursuit. This study evaluates self-mobilisation strategies and social buffering dynamics that assist people to commit to and prosper vis-à-vis adverse situations. A series of provocative human ‘waste’ upgrading events formulated a collective domesticity study where 22 participants participated in fermenting urine for growing edible plants and entering (biological) circulations of well-being. The dynamic tension of jointly encountered ambiguity together with the integrative goal created a failure-friendliness that was conducive to sociality, inventiveness, and rich emergence of meaning. 

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