In autumn 2010, we built a sukkah – a temporary, organic and transient dwelling growing out of Jewish tradition to celebrate the harvest. We built it across faiths and cultures and came together under its shelter to share meals, talks, performances and dialogues on food, faith and community. We assembled speakers, artists, religious teachers (of many faiths), activists, radicals and mischief makers to explore how these issues might look in a post-capitalist world. We worked together to create a temporary and ephemeral society to imagine and dream of alternative ways of living.
The sukkah was a collaboration of Wayward Plants with radical Jewish collective, Jewdas, The East London Mosque, Openvizor and the Kindest Group. The project was created with the support of Openvizor, Spitalfields City Farm, J-hub and Jeneration. Photographs by David Kendall.
Openvizor produced a documentary of the project directed by Andres Borda: