• Film
01.04.22 18h30

Kiss the Ground

Screening followed by a discussion with Philippe Nathan (2001) + Rachel Reckinger (University of Luxembourg)
luca - Luxembourg Center for Architecture
“INSPIRES A RARE FEELING OF HOPE” – NY Times

Narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis.
Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film artfully illustrates how, by drawing down atmospheric carbon, soil is the missing piece of the climate puzzle.

This movie is positioned to catalyze a movement to accomplish the impossible – to solve humanity’s greatest challenge, to balance the climate and secure our species future.

  • Documentary, 84 min., 2020
  • Directors : Joshua Tickell + Rebecca Harrell Tickell
  • Language : EN

Philippe Nathan

Architect, 2001

Philippe Nathan (2001) graduated from ISACF LaCambre Brussels in 2009, after which he collaborated with Brussels-based architecture office 51N4E for 3 years. In 2010, he returned to Luxembourg to found a think-and do-tank engaged in radical design and which is developing territories, buildings, spaces and strategies. He taught at the University of Brussels in 2015, was assisting between 2016 and 2018 at the ETH Zurich, studio tutor at MArch UNI.lu in 2019 and guest professor at TU Kaiserslautern in 2021. He has been an invited guest critic among others at the AA in London and the ENSA Versailles in Paris. He has been co-curator of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2012 and 2018.

© 2001

Rachel Reckinger

Food sociologist and anthropologist, University of Luxembourg

Rachel Reckinger (University of Luxembourg) is a food sociologist and anthropologist. She obtained her PhD in 2008 at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Marseilles. She specializes in sustainable food practices, focusing on policy gaps and changes of everyday practices within the transition towards a more circular economy. She is also interested in gender and identity issues shaping this field. She is the principal investigator of Sustainable Food Practices, spanning Luxembourg’s foodscape from production, governance, distribution to consumption.

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