Foodscape: Soil Society- Activity Zone

Airfield Estate, presents Foodscape: Soil Society, an immersive visitor experience designed to foster an understanding of the intrinsic role of soils and soil health in safeguarding the future of humanity. Visitors will navigate a series of interconnecting geodesic domes employing multi-disciplinary media to convey the sense of being underground. Complex topics pertaining to soils, their evolution, the soil food web, and issues jeopardising the future of healthy soils will be distilled into relatable narratives designed to stimulate meaningful conversations and precipitate individual behavioural change. A child-centric avatar in the guise of a French worm will ensure junior audiences follow the narrative arc. Emerging from the exhibition with a newfound curiosity for soils and their place in the hierarchy of sustainable food systems and provision of vital ecosystem services, the Soil Society Activity Zone will enable visitors to explore the sensory materiality of soils first hand. The Soil Society Activity Zone will allow them time and space to process their learnings via a scheduled program of hands-on activities. Participants in these Soil Scientist Sessions will have the opportunity to explore soil composition, composting and vermiculture, painting with earth pigments, planting for soils, and the evolution of humankinds’ relationship with soils. Foodscape: Soil Society & Activity Zone are part of a wider initiative led by Airfield Estate – a 38-acre working farm in suburban Dundrum, Dublin – designed to augment Airfield’s role as an immersive learning environment showcasing sustainable food systems to the public thereby ‘inspiring and enabling informed food choices’