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Art & Science Node Berlin, Schöneberg (2026)

05/05/2026

🌱🔬 Science in the Field: Students & Researchers Together
-ERT news
On April 28, 2026, the National Research Council (CNR) research area in Montelibretti (Rome) became an open-air laboratory—bringing science directly into the field!

👩‍🔬👨‍🎓 Hands-on learning in action
High school students collaborated with researchers, engaging in real experiments rather than passive observation. Carmelo Cannarella (CNR-ISB) engaged the class in detecting audio signals and "sounds" generated through the plants. Using precision electrodes placed both on the leaves and in the soil, students listened to and visualized variations in bio-electrical signals. This activity made it possible to investigate how plants react to different cultivation conditions (nutrient stress vs. abundance), revealing an invisible but detectable "language."
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05/05/2026

🌱🔬 Science in the Field: Students & Researchers Together
-ERT news
On April 28, 2026, the National Research Council (CNR) research area in Montelibretti (Rome) became an open-air laboratory—bringing science directly into the field!

👩‍🔬👨‍🎓 Hands-on learning in action
High school students collaborated with researchers, engaging in real experiments rather than passive observation. Carmelo Cannarella (CNR-ISB) engaged the class in detecting audio signals and "sounds" generated through the plants. Using precision electrodes placed both on the leaves and in the soil, students listened to and visualized variations in bio-electrical signals. This activity made it possible to investigate how plants react to different cultivation conditions (nutrient stress vs. abundance), revealing an invisible but detectable "language."
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29/04/2026

MEMORY NEXUS: Memory of the Week

The memory of the week is taken from the Memory Nexus Archive.
From Memory Nexus: Molecule 07
collected during the workshop at the University of Arts in Poznań, October 2025

🌱 🔎🌿🌍
What does soil remember?�And what do we remember through soil?

Memory of the Week is a new social media series emerging from Breath of Soil: Memory Nexus — an art-science project developed by Joanna Hoffmann (Art & Science Node) within the framework of SPIN-FERT EU/Mission Soil — that gathers personal memories connected to soil.
During workshops, sensing sessions, and participatory encounters, participants smell a sample of a soil (provided by SPIN-FERT scientists) and respond with the simple phrase:� “I remember…”

From childhood playgrounds and family bonds, through forest walks and gardening, to moments of philosophical reflection, unease, and ambiguous feelings—these memories are collected, clustered, and translated into Memory Molecules: sculptural forms inspired by RNA structures. Each molecule becomes a visual and material archive of lived experience — a bridge between soil science and intimate human narrative.

Every week, we will share:
🌱 One selected memory�
Because soil is a living, interactive archive, breath, and connection.
Follow along, remember with us, and perhaps rediscover your own hidden memory beneath the surface.

For more, visit: �https://spinfert.eu/art-science/�
https://artscience-node.com/memory-nexus-archive/

28/04/2026

🌍🌱 SPIN-FERT at Earth Day in Torino: Soil, Memory, and Collective Awareness

On Saturday, April 25, SPIN-FERT joined the celebrations of Giornata della Terra in Torino, hosted in the beautiful Royal Palace of Turin Gardens. Organised around Earth Day (April 22), the event brought together citizens, science, and sustainability in the heart of the city.

As part of the programme, we presented Breath of Soil – Memory Nexus, an art–science activity that invited participants to reflect on their personal connections to soil through memory and sensory experience. The response was remarkable: in just a few hours, we collected a rich constellation of “Memories,” demonstrating how deeply soil resonates across individual and collective narratives.

🌿 At the same time, we engaged visitors in discussions on the importance of peat-free and peat-reduced growing substrates, highlighting their role in protecting biodiversity and promoting sustainable resource use—key objectives of the SPIN-FERT project.

🧬 The collected memories will now be transformed into a new RNA-based artistic structure, soon to be shared on our website—bridging science, art, and lived experience in a truly transdisciplinary form.

✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us in Torino and contributed their memories!

👉 Stay tuned and follow SPIN-FERT / Art & Science for updates.
learn more about the Memory Nexus project:
https://artscience-node.com/memory-nexus/

22/04/2026

MEMORY NEXUS: Memory of the Week

The memory of the week is taken from the Memory Nexus Archive.
From Memory Nexus: Molecule 01
collected during the workshop at the OrgHort 2024 Symposium in Warsaw, Sept 2024.

🌱 🔎🌿🌍
What does soil remember?�And what do we remember through soil?

Memory of the Week is a new social media series emerging from Breath of Soil: Memory Nexus — an art-science project developed by Joanna Hoffmann (Art & Science Node) within the framework of SPIN-FERT EU/Mission Soil — that gathers personal memories connected to soil.
During workshops, sensing sessions, and participatory encounters, participants smell a sample of a soil (provided by SPIN-FERT scientists) and respond with the simple phrase:� “I remember…”

From childhood playgrounds and family bonds, through forest walks and gardening, to moments of philosophical reflection, unease, and ambiguous feelings—these memories are collected, clustered, and translated into Memory Molecules: sculptural forms inspired by RNA structures. Each molecule becomes a visual and material archive of lived experience — a bridge between soil science and intimate human narrative.

Every week, we will share:
🌱 One selected memory�
Because soil is a living, interactive archive, breath, and connection.
Follow along, remember with us, and perhaps rediscover your own hidden memory beneath the surface.

For more, visit: �https://spinfert.eu/art-science/

15/04/2026

MEMORY NEXUS: Memory of the Week

The memory of the week is taken from the Memory Nexus Archive.
From Memory Nexus: Molecule 06
collected during the workshop at the BAGECO in Graz/Austria, July 2025.

🌱 🔎🌿🌍
What does soil remember?�And what do we remember through soil?

Memory of the Week is a new social media series emerging from Breath of Soil: Memory Nexus — an art-science project developed by Joanna Hoffmann (Art & Science Node) within the framework of SPIN-FERT EU/Mission Soil — that gathers personal memories connected to soil.
During workshops, sensing sessions, and participatory encounters, participants smell a sample of a soil (provided by SPIN-FERT scientists) and respond with the simple phrase:� “I remember…”

From childhood playgrounds and family bonds, through forest walks and gardening, to moments of philosophical reflection, unease, and ambiguous feelings—these memories are collected, clustered, and translated into Memory Molecules: sculptural forms inspired by RNA structures. Each molecule becomes a visual and material archive of lived experience — a bridge between soil science and intimate human narrative.

Every week, we will share:
🌱 One selected memory�
Because soil is a living, interactive archive, breath, and connection.
Follow along, remember with us, and perhaps rediscover your own hidden memory beneath the surface.

For more, visit: �https://spinfert.eu/art-science/�https://artscience-node.com/memory-nexus-archive/

04/04/2026

✨ Happy Easter from SPIN-FERT and Art & Science Node ✨

May this season of renewal inspire: 🚀 Innovation 🌱 Sustainable Growth 🔍 New Discoveries
Let's continue to cultivate a future where art and science flourish together.

🐣 Happy Easter & a Vibrant Spring!

02/04/2026

🌱 Growing better food for a changing world 🌍: how science is reinventing fertilisers from the seed up🔬

It all starts with the seed. The earliest moments of a plant’s life, when a seed first awakens and prepares to germinate, set the trajectory for everything that follows. A seed that starts well develops a stronger root system, a more robust immune response to pathogens, and a greater capacity to cope with heat or drought later in life. This is why testing the effect of natural treatments directly on seeds is one of the most powerful strategies in modern agricultural research. By measuring how a seed responds to a biostimulant, how actively it metabolises, how vigorously it breathes, how efficiently it mobilises its reserves, scientists want to predict, early and reliably, whether a treatment will translate into a healthier, more resilient crop in the field.
Science at the service of farmers and consumers alike.

Projects like SPIN-FERT are pioneering this seed-first approach, combining precision measurement techniques with innovative formulations of natural fertilising compounds to identify the treatments that give crops the best possible start. The ambition goes beyond yield: it is about producing food that is genuinely more nutritious, grown on soils that remain fertile for future generations, by plants that need less chemical input to thrive. Better science at the seed stage means better food at the table… for people and the planet.

🌾 ♻️ 🍽️ 🌏

Images: Growing seedlings in square plates & experiment setup

01/04/2026

MEMORY NEXUS: Memory of the Week

The memory of the week is taken from the Memory Nexus Archive.
Memory by Andrzej Skwierz from Memory Nexus: Molecule 02 collected during the “Innovations in the Organic Horticultural Production” conference at the National Institute of Horticultural Research InHort in Skierniewice, October 2024.

🌱 🔎🌿🌍
What does soil remember?�And what do we remember through soil?

Memory of the Week is a new social media series emerging from Breath of Soil: Memory Nexus — an art-science project developed by Joanna Hoffmann (Art & Science Node) within the framework of SPIN-FERT EU/Mission Soil — that gathers personal memories connected to soil.
During workshops, sensing sessions, and participatory encounters, participants smell a sample of a soil (provided by SPIN-FERT scientists) and respond with the simple phrase:� “I remember…”

From childhood playgrounds and family bonds, through forest walks and gardening, to moments of philosophical reflection, unease, and ambiguous feelings—these memories are collected, clustered, and translated into Memory Molecules: sculptural forms inspired by RNA structures. Each molecule becomes a visual and material archive of lived experience — a bridge between soil science and intimate human narrative.

Every week, we will share:
🌱 One selected memory�
Because soil is a living, interactive archive, breath, and connection.

Follow along, remember with us, and perhaps rediscover your own hidden memory beneath the surface.

For more, visit: �https://spinfert.eu/art-science/�https://artscience-node.com/memory-nexus-archive/

31/03/2026

🌱 From soil to seeds… listening to life breathe

What if you could tell whether a seed is alive and thriving just by measuring the air around it? 🌬️
That is precisely the idea behind SeedResp, a compact laboratory technique inspired by the MicroResp™ which was developed to study the invisible microbial life inside soils.

How does it work? Living organisms breathe, they consume organic matter and release CO₂. SeedResp captures that CO₂ using a colour-changing gel positioned above the sample. The gel contains a pH-sensitive dye called cresol red, which turns from pink-red to yellow as CO₂ accumulates and acidifies it.
A seed waiting to germinate behaves, metabolically, much like a saprophytic microorganism: it has no access to sunlight or external food, and survives entirely by breaking down its own internal reserves. SpinFert project is now using the MicroResp™ technique to measure the respiration of individual seeds during this critical pre-germination window: capturing a real-time snapshot of seed vitality before the first root even emerges.

Why does it matter? Seed respiration is a direct indicator of vigour and health. By measuring it quickly and at scale, SpinFert aims to better understand how seed treatments and biostimulants influence early metabolic activity, with the ultimate goal of improving germination success and crop establishment. ✨

Pictures: seed images inside plates, at the stereomicroscope, MicroRespTM logo, sandwich of plates

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