In this episode, we take you back to the Creative Assembly hosted by INLAND–Campo Adentro on the 20th of October 2025, a field-based gathering in the urban open forest of Casa de Campo in Madrid, Spain.
INLAND-Campo Adentro is a European laboratory uniting a network of actors and artists who work to promote new ways of inhabiting the Earth. For more than fourteen years, the non-profit arts organisation has worked at the intersection of agriculture, social and cultural production.
Founded in 2009, INLAND has built a long-term practice that fosters practising communities through activities such as publishing, exhibitions, food production, and rural revitalisation efforts. One of its most emblematic initiatives is the revival of an abandoned hamlet in the Northern Spanish Mountains, a testing ground for ecological transition rooted in local knowledge and where a new School of Pastoralism is currently being developed.
The Creative Assembly has been hosted by INLAND where early ninety participants gathered —guest speakers, neighbours, architecture students from four European universities, and members of INLAND’s practising community—to reflect on the natural and cultural heritage practices in open public spaces within the metropolis and the coexistence of communities and landscapes.
Casa de Campo is a contested landscape, shared by many species and with many uses.INLAND’s presence there through pastoral work and artistic interventions is part of its wider contribution to Transformative Territories: Performing Transition through the Arts.
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About the Transformative Territories podcas tserie –
This podcast was created and produced as part of the Transformative Territories project, led by six European partners — ArtDialog ArtMill (Czech Republic), Inland (Spain), Instituto Terra e Memória (Portugal), Parti Poétique – Zone Sensible (France), Tavros (Greece) — and coordinated by COAL (France).
Transformative Territories explores the role of the arts and transformative artistic practices across territories through transnational research-creations, collective gatherings, the guidance of a scientific committee, the development of methodological tools, and their dissemination.
This podcast is co-funded by the European Union through the Creative Europe programme 2024–2026.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
Photo credits: Inland – Campo Adentro
Editing and mixing: Gilles Smrkovsky
