Slowness – Cultivating arts, crops and inner gardens

The Prologue

Slowness has been quietly unfolding since the creation in 2016 of La Granja Ibiza. The transformation of a dormant agricultural plot into a working farmstead devoted to discourse around food set the stage for a new kind of hospitality concept. We began to assemble a community of designers, farmers, writers, artists, artisans and architects whose work engages with slowness toward a resetting of values.

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The Journal

Meditations on slowness through photography, film, art and original reportage.

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FEATURE

RADICAL UTOPIAS

The Long Wave: Metamorphosis and The Age of Love

At certain moments in history, the machinery of progress seems to pause, recalibrate, and pivot toward something unexpected. This new instalment of our “Radical Utopias” series explores a little-known economic theory that suggests that we find ourselves at just such a Great Turning.

MULTIMEDIA

IMMERSIVE LEARNING

Encyclopedia of the Farm

Follow the fruits and vegetables of La Granja from soil to sustenance and uncover their nutritional and cultural significance with the farmers, cooks, critters and creative minds who make the farm what it is today.

PLACES

Drawing on the insights of the slow movement, adaptive reuse, and regenerative agriculture, we build and nourish locally rooted places that offer a deeper, more conscious form of hospitality. Our places offer not a “pit stop” away from the hectic pace of daily life but a continuous journey of reconnection, of learning to live in harmony with nature, our community and ourselves.

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Flussbad

Berlin, Germany

Milan Kundera “Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time. In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”

To be slow is not merely to decrease the pace of life. It’s about taking the time to reconsider our actions and think more deeply and responsibly about how we live. We want to nourish ourselves on what Thoreau called “the tonic of wildness” and live evermore in the moment so that we can inhabit an existence that is “more elastic, more starry, more immortal.” Or in the words of Rachel Carson, the mother of the green movement: “One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?’”

Essential

Statistics and Tracking

An intention, a wish, a recourse, Slowness is a collective of people, places and projects that reframe the way we live and interact.

The Prologue

The Journal

The Long Wave: Metamorphosis and The Age of Love

Neo-Brutalist Master Arno Brandlhuber

Building a Modern Temple with Monika Gogl

Encyclopedia of the Farm

Soundwalk Collective’s Poetic Transmissions

Rudolf Steiner and the Anthroposophical Society

PLACES

Flussbad