Join the wild faculty of transformation
Come and stay in our desert village and let your imagination roam freely. Get a chance to learn about local ecosystems, regenerative cultures, transition design, and practice agency in a playful way.
You’ll have the opportunity to immerse in communal experiences while surrounded by the unique ecosystem of Błędowska Desert. We encourage you to be open to adventurous conditions and let them transform you, to embrace the raw beauty and complexity of Nature.
We guarantee you’ll meet some inspiring creatures you’ll become friends with. You will have a chance to join workshops and experiments merging art, ecology, system thinking and science. If this invitation sounds like something for you, there are plenty of ways to get involved. Follow the dusty trail.
Before the wild adventure begins... please read our Desert Values
Desert Transformation Lab is shaped by shared ethics: equity of all beings, awareness, ecology, care, queerness, wholeness, non-violence, community, and sustainability. What does it mean in practice?
Active Participation
We know that transformative change can occur only through deeply personal participation - on individual, collective, and societal levels. We encourage you to embrace learning by doing. Everyone is invited to work for the common good of our planet and its inhabitants. All participants are involved in the daily routine of the village and are asked to comply with the Desert Guidelines.
Sustainability
Sustainability lies at the core of Desert Transformation Lab and we wish to incorporate it into our daily practice. The residency is an ideal ecosystem for developing new habits and rethinking their impact on the natural environment. Create a positive trace: We are a regenerative playground. Come and leave a mark that future generations will appreciate.
Consent
Bring awareness to your boundaries & needs, respect those of others. If it’s not a full yes, then it’s a no.
Radical Self-Reliance
When you come to the Desert Transformation Lab, you are responsible for your own survival, safety, comfort, and well-being of yourself and the village.
Gift Economy
What is your deepest gift that you can share with the community? How we can collectively practice non-capitalistic forms of exchange that are based on mutual care?
Decommodification
To preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
Communal Effort
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
Ecological Awareness
Desert Transformation Lab is nested in Eagle’s Nest Landscape Park, within the dunes of Błędowska Desert, an ecosystem that is part of the Natura 2000 protection program. You are invited to meet our neighbours, human and more than human, and please be respectful and aware that their needs may be different from yours.
Meet your hosts
Chose your accommodation
HOW TO PLAY
DESERT ROLES & ARCHETYPES
Desert guide
Become one of the caretakers and facilitators of the Desert Transformation Lab and guide others through this wild faculty.
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Participant
Visit and study at the School of Ecological Imagination, experience communal living in a unique ecosystem and get involved in something bigger than yourself.
JoinVolunteer
Join the our Desert troupe as one of the Special Agents in the area of your choosing and become a part of the transformation.
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