Spore Initiative facilitates cultural projects at the intersection of climate justice, ecological regeneration, and education, in dialogue with earth protectors in the Global South and the Global North. The Spore House in Berlin is a platform for exchange, dialogue, and mutual learning. At the core of our work is the weaving of dialogues and the nurturing of common grounds that exist between communities, organizations, and people who may be geographically or culturally far from one another but are linked through practices of care for the earth.

Spore began its journey in Yucatán, pivoted around extended conversations with people such as Pedro Uc Be and initiatives such as Escuela de Agricultura Ecológica U Yits Ka’an and the collective Suumil Móokt’an about the defense of the territory, milpa agriculture, the solar maya, Melipona beekeeping, traditional medicine, and other practices of interspecies care. Some of these dialogues led to the coproduction of bilingual (Spanish and Yucatec Maya), everyday cultural tools. These were created together through prolonged processes and collective workshop methods, which saw the engagement of different age groups and a variety of practitioners such as nutritionists, farmers, beekeepers, illustrators, poets, biologists, archeologists, translators, craftsmen, community radio hosts, and filmmakers. Tools have so far included a board game with a twist, an illustrated book, an animation film, communal spaces, several workshops involving multiple generations, an audio play series, poster campaigns, educational leaflets, among others. These dialogues and coproductions are ongoing and woven into a growing web of partnerships that guide Spore’s philanthropic endeavors towards nurturing cultures of care elsewhere, as well as the programming in Berlin.