irrigation systems with ceramic pots

by Maria Roy

Watering with less water is possible? We will reflect and learn more sustainable ways to irrigate in times of drought and we will teach you how to do it using a traditional technique: the porosity of ceramic pots.

Ceramic pottery pots for underground irrigation are an ancestral and efficient technique for irrigating crops in a sustainable way. They consist of porous earthenware vessels buried close to the roots of plants. They are filled with water, which slowly seeps through the porous walls of the pot, supplying moisture directly to the soil and preventing water loss through evaporation or run-off. This practice, used for centuries in arid regions, promotes constant and optimised irrigation, encouraging healthy plant growth while conserving water resources.

The workshop will be held inside and outside the centre. We will meet at the Centre Cívic Sant Martí to get to know the garden space and we will move to La Escocesa where we will model the pincer with clay in the ceramics workshop. We will finish the workshop with a planting session with the pots we have created.

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Maria Roy is an artist who uses critical design, along with traditional and experimental craft techniques to explore new narratives to shift from a culture of exploitation and abuse of the environment to one that proposes opportunities to relate in an egalitarian and immersive way to species and the environment. Her main subject of study is the earth, as living matter that speaks of history, politics and ecology, and she works with the material remains she encounters to make ceramic sculptures.

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