Seminar 1: 25 - 27 November 2025

Sunrise: Approximately 7:50 AM; 

sunset: Approximately 5:00 PM;

Daylight: around 9 hours and 10 minutes 

- Tuesday, 25 November: A chilly day with a high around 6 °C, low near 4 °C. Expect some early sun, but clouds will increase through the morning and persist into the afternoon.

- Wednesday, 26 November: Slightly milder, high around 7 °C, low again near 4 °C. Rain is expected — damp and cold, so outdoor plans should be weather-contingent.

- Thursday, 27 November: A bit warmer, with a high around 8 °C and low about 4 °C. The day will start with some sunshine, clouds moving in, and a chance of a shower in the morning and light rain in the afternoon.

Dress in warm layers, bring waterproof outerwear for walks in the landscape. 

The first meeting marks the beginning of the collaborative work and reflects on the methods for carrying out a shared artistic project in relation to the specific environments in which the study group is immersed over the course of the year.

With a focus on PAF and its surroundings, the session approaches its neighbouring forests and fields as a setting in which a shared imagination can be assembled. Through exchange and reflection, the study group tries to attune to each other’s tools, practices, motives, views, passions, aspirations, and dreams in order to align the year’s trajectory. Together with the artist Egle Budvytytė, who joins this session as a guest, the materials brought into the confluence offer points of entry into a conversation and a shared process loosely connected to considerations of how intimate relations to environments come together, and how these deeply personal modes of living and acting are positioned within the larger superstructures of environmental concepts, environmental politics, and the hyperobjects of infrastructure and geopolitics.

Tuesday, 25 November

Morning 

What is the plateau of practice, what is the focus of a project? 

Assemblies in relation to environments as constructs. 

Introduction of the course and the work of Neringa Forest Architecture.

Reading and 1st forest walk forwards

Afternoon 

Introduction of the participants with one image – what skills from individual praxis skill-box might be shared in the collaborative work this year?

2nd forest walk - morning walk backwards

Evening

Film screening

Wednesday, 26 November

Morning 

Morning spent outside in the forest

Afternoon 

Glossary session / setting up a structure of a shared work / reading session

Evening

Film screening

Thursday, 27 November

Day with the artist Eglė Budvytytė

Morning 

Eglė Budvytytė will lead somatic and movement practices for the study group, including TRE (Tension/stress/trauma Release Exercise), for ‘attuning to the senses and slowing perception’. The practice can be modified to suit most physical abilities.

Afternoon 

The day with Eglė Budvytytė continues with further body movement exercises and a talk about her artistic projects developed in relation to the environments in Nida and Apulia.  

Evening

Closing discussion