Woods residency: mario framis pujol
October–November 2025
born in barcelona, catalonia, rooting all the way from new york, mallorca and france, mario is a writer, a being-with the land, organizer, cross-pollinated wanderer, a fugitive of inertia, what dances in the opaque, the chaotic, & the tender. he thanks you for being curious.
dedicated to designing, rehearsing, practicing and impulsing pathways of resilience through cultural and communitary spaces that link, amplify and bring closer human relationships with nature. their research field and expression circle around the growth of networks between land-based ecologies, spirituality & art.
Imaginary landscapes on you dining table (and garden metabolisms)
Workshops with permaculture designer and gardener Adéla Hrubá and Spanish writer, wanderer, organiser a gardener mario framis pujol
Woods – Community for Cultivation, Theory, and Art, Saturday 25th October 2025, 10am – 4pm
Gardens and food forests are human-made (or semi-natural) environments that—despite all the gardeners’ efforts—are subject to constant and not entirely controllable processes: growth, decline, decomposition, overgrowth, reproduction, consumption, and survival.
With Adéla Hrubá (due to illness, Adéla substituted for specialist Denisa Tomášková who, together with the Woods community, created the land design based on permaculture principles) we explored how the gardeners’ intentions have (or haven’t) been realised in this particular garden, and how challenges in permaculture practice can transform into opportunities and solutions. We reviewed the original design and assessed on site what works, what doesn’t, and why—and what can be done about it. We also revisited how to plant shrubs, which varieties are suitable, and how to care for them at a time when the climate doesn’t exactly make it easy for us.
After that, we dived into imaginary landscapes of recipes and cultivation in a workshop led by mario framis pujol. We imagined other worlds—future landscapes brought to life through a dining table full of ingredients representing the region’s food sovereignty. Together, we tried to design the planting of vegetable beds and an orchard layout in connection with the dishes we’d like to include in a seasonal menu. Then, we cooked together using local ingredients that mario framis pujol has gathered from visits to local farmers and gardens. He also briefly introduced his practice, which he mainly develops in Spain.
The workshop concluded with the garden metabolism of compost. Adéla Hrubá reminded us how to build a compost pile, using a new pallet composter made by mario framis pujol. We also discussed soil and current issues surrounding municipal composting facilities.
Rehearsing a Radical Change? On Imaginary Landscapes and Action
workshop and artist talk by mario framis pujol
Kafkárna – Centre for Art and Ecology, UMPRUM Prague, Thursday 30 October 2025
in collaboration with the Studio of Fine Arts I and the Visiting Artist Studio
A one-day gathering dedicated to thinking, sensing, and trying out together the ways of living in the world we long for. Throughout the day, participants engaged in practices that connected body and mind, art and care, doing and reflecting, food and its ecologies—gently setting in motion a shared practice of resilience. We moved, thought, questioned, debated, cooked, and ate.
Together, we imagined landscapes, their inhabitants, and forms of being “with” one another in unfamiliar constellations. The day culminated in communal cooking, a public sharing of mario framis pujol’s work, and a conversation about how art and ecological thinking can shape and transform each other.
Photo: Sofia Castineiras