Speaking with Your Mouth Full
Breaking formalities and chatting about ideas that mess with our minds and guts.

We propose the LINA Library to become more active and an extension of the LINA Community, expanding our peers’ knowledge and lived experiences through slow, informal and embodied storytelling. A space where echoes are translated, making sense of cacophonies that tell unique and similar stories about society, architecture, nature and ourselves. We embrace curation not as an act of categorising, but of connecting; not to contain complexity, but to dissect it, and dare to reimagine anew. Below, you can find the individual statements by each of the Planting Solidarity members for the Library’s next chapter:

We are always eager to speak our minds. In a world of hyperconnectivity, the urge to share what we’ve learned—and what we still long to learn—feels less like a social or cultural impulse and more like a constant internal anguish. So, what better moment to let ideas spill out than while eating and drinking?

Inspired by our daily meetings with friends and colleagues on dining tables and cafes’ esplanades, my approach to the curation intends to open a playful and insightful exchange between projects both within and beyond the LINA community. The selection of works and references will foster an open and continuous dialogue between creatives and practitioners who are redefining our individual and collective relationship with food, materials, land and territoriality. I will intertwine writings, visual works, workshops, installations, and potential interviews with invited collaborators, placing them all around one communal table. A table generous enough to hold a warm, fresh, and sometimes loud feast.

– Daniel Boris

In a time of ecological collapse and cultural fragmentation, our work must begin with deep listening—to one another and to the environments we’re part of. Like mycelial networks, I see housing and landscape as an interwoven system of exchange and mutual aid. Housing is more than shelter—it’s rooted in soil, shaped by policy and collective memory. Landscape holds stories, histories, and potential of repair. Listening—especially in public and collaborative ways—becomes a tool to unsettle dominant design frameworks and open space for discourse beyond architecture.

This is where sound as a medium becomes vital. How might we archive knowledge in ways that center care, reciprocity, and community resilience? Through radio shows, interviews, field recordings, and experimental mixes, I aim to create a layered collage of voices, mixtapes, and testimonies that reflect how we already care for one another—often informally and unnoticed. Sound, then, is not just documentation—it is solidarity. A way to carry wisdom forward and keep it alive in times of need.
As mycelium thrives through mutual support and shared vitality; our environments too can become spaces of relational living—where solidarity and social life are nurtured together as one.

– Marie Tina Asoh

 

As phrased by Donna J. Haraway in Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene,
“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.”
Haraway’s reflection is a grounding provocation. It reminds us that how we engage with space—how we think it, narrate it, move through it—matters. My curatorial take is aimed at stimulating thought around the invisible but powerful frameworks that shape our environments: the concepts, stories, and tools and materials we rely on are never neutral. They form the lens through which we see, and the scaffold upon which we build. If we create from extractive models, we reproduce control and separation. But if we root ourselves in kinship, interdependence, and local entanglement, we open up space for care, reciprocity, and regeneration.

The relationships we nurture—with land, humans, and more-than-human beings—generate patterns that ripple into future worlds. Each act of making has a larger impact. In imagining new possibilities, we uncover endless ways of relating to our surroundings. The works gathered here invite us to notice those ripples. To stay with the complexity. And to imagine what kinds of worlds we are creating together.

– Luma Vidal Weinhardt

In a growth-obsessed, free-market system, competition is often heralded as the engine of innovation. This logic permeates academia and architectural discourse alike. Meanwhile, the absence of collective knowledge around stories of care and cooperation in human history conveniently benefits institutions rooted in monarchic power and ownership logic.

In a world governed by money, the design of economic entities becomes crucial. One might argue that any design avoiding these structures cannot be truly transformative—or even meaningful. So, what would it mean to place cooperation as a design value?

In defiance of concentrated wealth and power a decentralized, bioregional approach urges locally grounded cooperation and democratically owned businesses. In practice, this may lead you to question your definition of “success”—perhaps even to take the decision to leave a job and organize with your community instead. That’s where the real work begins— cultivating emotional maturity, and connecting beyond the ego; discovering pleasure beyond consumption, and rediscovering ourselves as a collective species. My approach invites you to explore these tensions—both internal and external—and try out new frameworks for working and living together.

– Angela Hausermann

 

What we offer here is a constellation of stories, gestures, and invitations to listen more closely. Each contribution calls for kinship, for care, for reimagining how we live together. By curating across disciplines and formats, we hope to cultivate a more attentive, reciprocal relationship with the world—one that echoes far beyond the frame of this library.
Though we each carry distinct perspectives, we are united by a shared question: how can we deepen solidarity and build stronger communities, especially in times of need?

For this year’s edition of the LINA Library 2025, the selected curators are Planting Solidarity Co., a collective group by:

Marie Tina Asoh has roots in Cameroon and Madagascar, but grew up in Canada. After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture (2018), Marie Tina moved to Switzerland in pursuit of further education and practical experience. Marie Tina has worked for various landscape architecture offices while pursuing her MAS in Housing Development at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (2022). In 2023, Marie Tina founded Planting Solidarity, and has been committed to storytelling through research, documentation and music.

Daniel Boris was born in Fortaleza, Brazil, living in Porto, Portugal, since 2017. Currently developing a PhD thesis at the Center for Research on Territory, Transport and Environment (CITTA-FEUP) about the correlations of Sustainable Food Systems and Spatial Planning. Interested in multiple references from urban planning, photography and literature, and have already participated in a collective artistic project in Porto named Des/oriente (2023).

Luma Vidal Weinhardt, with roots from Brazil, has ventured through the fields of economics and industrial design. Now pursuing a Master’s Degree in Industrial Design at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel, Switzerland, she aims to merge design with principles of circularity, sustainability, and social responsibility. Luma strives to create solutions resonating with both individuals and communities, driving progress towards a more sustainable and equitable future.

Angela Häusermann was born in Switzerland and spent her developing years in Portugal. She is the co-founder of Planting Solidarity. Angela’s academic background focused on Economics and Spatial Development, which led her to write her Master’s Thesis on “Experiments and Improvisation in City Development”. Her working experience in organic plant breeding and interest in food systems led her to explore the themes of associative democracy, collective organization, various exchange formats, and land as a commons.