Folly
02

The second edition of Folly is on the theme of Cultivation.

To cultivate is to establish and develop, to care continuously. To nurture and form, whether it is for plants or culture. When humans started to cultivate the land, the structures they built to store grain were the first architectures. Both agriculture and architecture have been intertwined since the Neolithic Era: cultivated in conversation with each other, from the mythic origins of architecture’s beginnings, the agricultural texts of Vitruvius and Varro, the manicured gardens of country houses, to industrialised farming. 

We invite text and images that speak to this relationship, looking at the intimacies between selves and others, objects and sites. Orientation matters, so what and who have we attended and tended to?