Haystacks are a series of gatherings about rural undercurrents and practices in urban settings, set up by Kathrin in her home town London May 2013. Haystacks paused during the pandemic, and are restarting with the 2024 Lammas Land Haystack. Haystacks have no fixed location. Previous haystacks are listed here. /|\///|\\\///|||\\\\///\/\\//|\\\//|\\//\\||//|\\

Until 18th AugustMunicipal Kitchens at nGbK, Berlin Until 25th AugustArtistes et paysans - Battre la campagneat Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse Until 8th SeptemberHeuhaufenat Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

We just added a new text to the website library: "As if it was a farm" was first written by Kathrin and Wapke from Myvillages in November 2023, and revised in January 2024, with input from Inez Dekker and Indra Gleizde, reflecting on questions and suggestions discussed during a Rural School of Economics gathering of friends, collaborators and comrades during the 20th anniversary weekend in Rotterdam in November 2023: “Looking back to the future we want”.

nonkrong 04 auf dem Acker:Wie spreche ich mit meinem Dorf ?(Teil 2) A follow up conversation on how to initiate and communicate art and cultural projects in your rural community. After our last conversation at Wohnzimmer Alfter, we are meeting at the farm yard at Mandt, a local organic grower in Alfter. If it's sunny we'll be on the field. Mittwoch 19. April 2023 von 18.00 – 20.00 Uhr

A third nonkrong in Alfter/Alanus University is taking place on Wednesday 22nd March at Wohnzimmer Alfter with the title "How to talk to my village?" - a question that came up in the previous nonkrong session after a discussion with Hey_Kompost on how to introduce new cultural initiatives to rural communities as a non-local, and how to connect so-called traditional practices with a feminist approach. Einladung an Alle nonkrong 03: Wie spreche ich mit meinem Dorf ?

In early December 2022 we launched "Lumbungsden" together with the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, to honour the enormous achievement and proposition made by ruangrupa during documenta fifteen, and to support the global call for #lumbungcontinues as a localised practice made by many. In the first half of 2023 the Rural School of Economics will be mainly active * in Lumsden with a summer school in early July* in Pushkino, with a trans-local visit from Zvizzchi in May* at Terrra in Brezoi, setting up a new permanent collective place initiated by aaa* and redrawing the economy with Master Business students and growers in Alfter * a year with new local research starting on "

Sunday 20 June from 13.00 – 14.00 CET Geological Tour Meet at Friedrichsplatz, in front of Fridericianum Guided walk to the Erdkilometer, a permanent art work by Walter de Maria for documenta 6 in 1977, which was inserted across the geological layers without honouring them. Together with Ottoneum based geologist Dr. Conny Kurz. Wapke made a geological animation of the site and you can watch it here.