POSSIBILITIES PROCESS
Hands in the Soil
Enter shared spaces of making and mapping where creative commonalities and differences are visible, valued and active.
Help to counter-archive stories from the ground, resisting erasure and reimagining spaces of cultural inquiry and solidarity.
Ear to the Ground is an evolving platform for collaborative listening, cultural mapping and grounded storytelling. Rooted in the entangled histories and futures of place, it invites participants to tune in—closely, carefully—to what is emerging beneath, between and beyond dominant narratives.
Through open calls, fieldwork and creative co-design, the project gathers situated responses in image, sound, text and gesture. Ear to the Ground constructs a living, layered archive: a space for conversation, not containment.
'Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.'
— MARY OLIVER
'Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.'
― Mary Oliver
'Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.'
― Mary Oliver
Mass Witness
Pick a Hopewell prompt that speaks to you or try them all. Your voice will help to build a shared, living record of Cleveland’s layered ground. Submissions will contribute to a public archive and may be included in exhibitions, workshops and community events.
The Hopewell Project is an open call to notice, reflect and respond to the ground beneath your feet, the world around you and what's within.
Inspired by the deep, layered histories of the Hopewell Culture and the lands around Greater Cleveland, this project invites you to peel back the surface, to listen closely, observe slowly and share what rises up.
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'It is not enough to hover in the familiar. We must inhabit the alien — not through mastery or domination but through the optimisation of constraints, recognition of the broadest sense of 'we' and our diverse capacities.'
— DIANE BAUER, FIELDWORK FOR FUTURE ECOLOGIES