Cycle is a cycle is a cycle is a cycle (Belo Horizonte) is a ritual of time dilation that recurs to cyclical knowledge, to what has been forgotten but remains latent in ancestral practices of cultivation and care for the land. It is the rescue of rhythms that urban time – linear and accelerated – silences and hides, revealing a temporality that insists on reappearing and reinventing itself. Each turn of the cycle brings with it a renewal of meanings, an expansion of the idea that we belong to something larger, an interconnected and integrated system.
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The commons is difficult to delineate and yet it represents a seemingly universal and timeless form of social organisation characterised, in short, by collective custody of and equal access to land and natural resources. In our age of global hyper-capitalism and unbridled speculation on increasingly virtual assets it is no wonder that the commons has come to epitomise a (re)turn to the land and matter as well as an aspirational alternative to individualism and a utopian ethics for change.
Воса A Boca (en: "word of mouth") is an online editorial project by foodculture days. Following a seasonal rhythm, Boca A Boca grows organically as a living archive and platform for the dissemination of thoughts and creative ideas. Each cycle is curated by guest editors invited to respond to a theme emanating from foodculture days' ongoing field research. Through a selection of multimedia and text contributions, the cycles introduce, contextualize, problematize, and enrich in a poetic and situated way the understanding of complex issues that challenge us and our community. With a transdisciplinary and holistic approach, we wish to offer multifaceted perspectives on critical questions of our cultural, social, and environmental time, allowing fortuitous resonances across cycles, ideas, and practices.