Planetary Solidarities is a transnational workshop and research programme bringing together emerging practitioners working across architecture, artistic research, film, ecology, and experimental curatorial practices. It investigates how forms of care, knowledge production, and solidarity might be reimagined in response to the social, ecological, and political challenges of contemporary planetary conditions.

Framed through the lens of postdisciplinary worldmaking, the programme moves across artistic, spatial, ecological, and activist terrains—connecting geographies, experiences, and knowledge systems in search of new forms of cohabitation in an age marked by climate crisis, social fragmentation, and ecological precarity. Through online workshops, asynchronous exchanges, and collaborative archival practices, Planetary Solidarities approaches architecture not as a stable discipline, but as an expanded field of situated relations.

The first cycle, Matters of Fact, focused on questions of bodily evidence, mapping, infrastructure, archives, and territorial transformation. Through collective reading, film analysis, diagrammatic thinking, and relational responses, participants explored how facts are constructed, mediated, and emotionally experienced. The second cycle, Matters of Heart, extends this inquiry toward emotional knowledge, care relations, exhaustion, attachment, and continuation as methodological and spatial questions.

The programme is developed in dialogue with a group of practitioners whose work unfolds across rivers, coastlines, infrastructures, archives, ruins, and territories marked by environmental and political transformation. Participants include Tiphaine Bedel (France), Samanta Kajėnaitė (Lithuania), Galena Sardamova and Paris Bezanis (Bulgaria/Greece), and Svitlana Usychenko (Ukraine/France). Alongside them, a series of Included Voices introduces situated perspectives that expand and complicate the collective conversation. Contributions by artist Sonya Isupova and climate engineer Walaa Hajali have opened questions of hydro-electric imaginaries, river infrastructures, environmental transformation, memory, and the politics of representation.

Rather than producing finalised projects, Planetary Solidarities is developing a Living Archive—an evolving repository of unfinished texts, visual fragments, annotations, references, responses, sound recordings, diagrams, and situated reflections. The archive functions not as storage, but as a medium of thinking in motion. It gathers what usually remains marginal: open questions, emerging methods, fragments of research, annotated readings, sketches, conversations, and even failed or inconclusive experiments.

In this sense, Planetary Solidarities is not a singular event but a long-term process—a living ecology of conversations, practices, gatherings, and spatial imaginaries.

How do we build solidarities that are felt, not only declared? What forms of urban and planetary life become possible when care is placed before control, relation before domination, and shared vulnerability becomes the ground for collective action?