The ReRooted program Residency 3, created by Arbeit Studios and supported by LLDC, is premised on ecology, sustainability, and the public sphere.

Resulting in a physical work– an art commission to be placed in the North Garden, in Hackney Wick.

Responding to this call, ‘Let’s be Eco-Logical!’ was a project wherein four public sphere workshops were designed and planned to become the framework on which a major part of the art commission was centered and thus created. It had four parts. First, and the major one being the prayer flags for ecological and universal harmony. Inspired by the Buddhist prayer flags that are seen around the Himalayas fluttering joyously that are wrapped or hung up from rocks or wooden supports. The wind is supposedly the carrier of these prayers of hope, harmony, and peace.

Four socially engaged workshops that helped create these 108 eco-dyed colourful prayer flags, with collaborative drawing and creating their own prayers of hope and wishes for the harmony and peace of the land and environment.

These workshops were skill-share, dialogical, and collaborative in design. They helped collective learning and unlearning by revisiting our ways of being sustainable in our everyday lives.