Convivial Learning Space responds to the needs of Foresta Seasonal Academy and Foresta Kids formats, offering places to stay for the Seasonal Academy’s as well as children’s and family formats participants, and also for artists in residence who come to participate in one of the circles within Foresta. It also includes collective spaces for togetherness, indoor learning facilities and an atelier.

Food Lab is at the heart of edible experimentation within the forest garden, and the inquiry into more respectful and playful sustenance. It includes a kitchen, ingredient transformation facilities, collective dining space, as well as all the necessary land care infrastructure, such as toolshed, greenhouse, animal pavilion.

Guest house is part of structures for hospitality that hold space for inviting temporary dwellers into the project, those wishing to experience the place not only during a day visit, but potentially stay for a while, as a way to travel slower, participate in (rather than consume) and get to know this living place closer.

Camping also belongs to structures of hospitality and follows similar principles as a guest house described above, but offers more affordable options for a temporary stay at Foresta. Further ideas connected to this thinking include a sauna and a swimming pond.

While School without Walls is a guided learning experience within Foresta Kids, Landscapes of Childhood is its extension into spatial practice. It’s an ecology of micro-architectural structures, as well as artistic invitations, rhythms, and other affordances, shaped by human imagination and intervention as much as by natural processes, so that the space itself — the constructed elements and the landscape — become collaborators and actively care for the child. We think of it as a constellation of micro-worlds that hold space for open play, learning and connection.

Bonding needs a sanctuary. Temple of Ancestors is a sanctuary for remembering. It’s the most mysterious place at Foresta. A place where language thins, where the living acknowledge the dead as ecological, cultural, and invisible co-presence (not as disappearance). Its intention honours ancestry beyond family lineage — ancestors may be human, plant, animal, microbial, elemental, cultural, wounded, forgotten, misunderstood, unnamed. Ancestry may be all that has made us possible, all that continues to act through us, and all that asks something of us. Restoration of bonding requires protection from speed, extraction, noise, performance, irony, and consumption. A sanctuary as a symbolic temple manifests and protects the possibility of seriousness of such intention.

Multispecies Commons Walk is a cultural pathway embedded into the landscape. It’s a connecting thread that invites to visit different areas and projects within Foresta on the land, learn about the cosmology of our work, and connect with the local territory through a contemplative walking journey. Communication partners on the walk will be several site-specific artefacts, objects, and installations, as well as, echoing the approach of Landscapes of Childhood, the natural processes of the territory itself.