HOW IS CARE EMBEDDED INTO CULTURES OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE?

Culturing Care is a creative long-term explorative project lead by researcher and heritage specialist Margaréta Pintér. The project aims to critically examine the concept of care through contemporary cultural practices in order to explore how communities of today adapt and remould caring practices of the past as a way to strengthen their stewardship for the future.

The seeds of thought informing this larger project were found in Margaréta’s MA thesis, where she examined contemporary sourdough breadmaking through the lens of heritagization, care ethics and multispecies entanglements. The idea that you can physically ferment care in everyday practice lead to the discovery that you can also encounter cultures of care elsewhere. Culturing Care aims to document the ways in which care is inoculated into culture and how culture is inserted into care.

The notion of culturing care emerges at a time when the question of what it means to care has acute implications on our future as a human species. The field of heritage presents itself as one lens of many to discuss the complex, multi-scalar and entangled ways in which care is expressed in the world. Culturing Care extends the notion of caring far beyond that of the human world by aiming to bring particular awareness to the under-appreciated realm of care-full interspecies and more-than-human interactions.

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