Lentil Lab is a place for experiments. With more-than-human co-hosts, we feed, listen to, and play with experiments. We make spaces for experiments to be reflexive and accountable in a world that is spinning and tilted and sustained by revolutions.
We help community organisations, services, and projects make space for greater accountability to social movements
We custom-make spaces for social scientists and others to go with their theories, methods, and dreams into the dark
We host one-off spaces to experiment with the revolutionary potential of (g)hosting
Lentils are common. They are cheap and nourishing, perfect for feeding a collective. They slowly release energy, perfect for sustaining movement. They come in different textures and colours and can be cooked and eaten in lots of different ways. They are delicious. They grow in pods (like whales), and through bushes that are sprawling and low to the ground (like Rachel). They protect the gut, aka the home of the intuition. They are the etymological ancestor of the ‘lens’ – that unseen technology of seeing so central to the ‘age of reason’, to that (En)light(ened) pollution that stopped us from seeing the stars. And they are typically ignored, overlooked, understated. By accepting the humble lentil as eponym, we commit to respecting the wisdom of more-than-humans and of what comes before and what continues beside and below. The pagan, the counter-colonial, the undercommons.
