To steep is to saturate — to soak tea leaves, grapes, or herbs until both liquid and ingredient are transformed by the encounter. From a separate root, steep also describes a gradient: a learning curve requiring effort and duration. What both share is time, and what time does to things willing to be changed by it.
Steeping takes this double condition as its subject. Can transformation be anticipated and cultivated? What do we bring to a host environment, and how long must we steep before something genuinely changes?
Join DesignInquiry this September as we explore and investigate these ideas! Applications are open now!
More info at the link in bio.
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DesignInquiry is thrilled to announce its next Inquiry hosted at the incredible Banca del Fare!
To steep is to saturate. To soak something long enough that both the ingredient and the liquid are changed by each other. It's also a gradient — an incline that can't be climbed without effort and duration.
DesignInquiry's next gathering holds both of those meanings at once. This September, fourteen inquirers will come together at Banca del Fare — an educational farmhouse in rural Italy where knowledge is shared through doing — to work alongside local residents and artisans with stone, wood, and honey.
Steeping raises questions about quantities, qualities and temporalities: What we’re bringing to the host environment, how long we should be steeping it in the new surroundings, and how both ingredient and state might be transformed.
Applications are open. Apply today!
Link in bio.
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