The SocialBody Apothecary proposes valuing the knowledges and resources stored in our bodies and lands. Making herbal remedies together is a decolonial practice of resistance against structural violence. We understand the connections between symptoms that appear in individualised bodies as indications of what might be rooted in systemic injustices through land exploitation, colonial powers, climate change, and migration. Our practice in the SocialBody Apothecary requires adapting to serve emergent needs in the context of climate justice in rapidly changing socio-ecological and political conditions that impact our communities’ direct lived environments and experiences. We value dynamic engagement with plants as healers, teachers, collaborators, and allies, asking how we might be in reciprocity with them. They support multiple aspects and systems within the body and socio-ecological context simultaneously; multiplicity indicates that there are many ways to aid or support the social body from different perspectives.   The SocialBodyApothecary co-created organ-centres as dwellings and shelters for being with inner sensations, outer architectures, and local plant allies throughout the garden conceptualised as organ centres  by neighbourhood children designed by Kitti Acosta-Zsiga built in collaboration with Constructlab. Projects:

• Design workshops with Tikwa Werkstatt, Clubhaus Phase II
• ‘Unter die Haut’ (under the skin) workshop series, integrating DIY herbal remedy-making, embodied practices, and community building.
• Workshop Series: 4 organs 4 plant allies
• Urban Resilience – places of tranquillity, care and healing  

SocialBody Apothecary are: Kitty Acosta-Zsiga, Shelley Etkin, Siegmar Zacharias