Entropy: The universal tendency of order to decay towards disorder and chaos. Things fall apart.

Syntropy: The universal tendency of complexity to emerge from disorder and chaos. Things come together.

This experimental land-based residency will weave together practices and provocations from
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF), the evolved pedagogy and holding structures of
Banana Mountain (our democratic unschool), and unfolding rhythms of reciprocity with this land; a
sprawling, semi-feral farm in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada (Spain) where the Trevélez and Guadalfeo rivers meet on their way from the mountains to the sea.

The residency has no fee, no funding, no pressure to produce, and no pre-specified outcomes. It
offers 4 – 10 participants an invitation into open-ended inquiry, a space to be with and feel the
weight of complexity, complicity, and collapse, and to experiment with the tender possibilities of
relating, responding, and hoping otherwise, in the company of others, with no guarantees.

This inquiry will be held within a simple container of co-living (shared housing, shared meals,
mutual care, and consent-based decision-making), co-stewarding (15 hours per week of land work),
and co-sensing (a weekly seminar using materials from GTDF). This container intends to offer
enough structure to hold while leaving plenty of room for personal and collective exploration and
emergent possibilities.

This residency is for folks with a personal or relational practice they would like to explore in
dialogue with land, who are drawn to the offerings of GTDF and ready to face complicity and
collapse, who understand land-work as a way of being in relationship rather than a form of
exchange, who do not need or expect therapeutic holding or retreat-style comforts, and who are
ready to participate in the co-creation of a living relational field that everyone involved is
responsible to, and no one is responsible for.

To express your interest and/or find out more visit our website, or email luke@uniondelosrios.org