Soil is not just matter —
it is time
Exploring soil temporalities, living infrastructures,
digital agriculture, and ecological futures
“Soil operates on timescales that cannot be accelerated”
ABOUT
Soil Clocks Lab explores:soil temporalities
ecological regeneration
algorithmic agriculture
living infrastructures
ecological futuresThe lab investigates conflicts between ecological rhythms and systems of real-time optimisation.Rather than treating soil as a passive resource,
Soil Clocks approaches it as a living infrastructure:
dynamic, relational, and constantly in formation.
“Regeneration requires time.”
WHY SOIL CLOCKS?
Soil is not static matter.
It is process, metabolism, memory, delay, regeneration.
Soil Clocks investigates temporal conflicts between
ecological rhythms and systems of real-time optimisation.The project focuses on:• soil time
• infrastructural thinking
• algorithmic agriculture
• ecological regeneration
• living systems and predictionEcological rhythms cannot be fully synchronised with real-time systems.
“The future begins below.”
THE LAB
A space for thinking with soil,
time, infrastructure, and ecological futures.Not a platform for optimisation,
but for slowing down.Not a model of prediction,
but an observatory of ecological rhythms.The lab combines anthropology,
environmental humanities, and infrastructure studies
to investigate conflicts between ecological temporalities
and real-time systems.
“The field changes faster than the model.”
FIELDWORK
Interviews with:precision agriculture companies
soil laboratories
regenerative farmers
AI agriculture startups
agronomists
soil practitionersResearch conducted in Poland, 2025–2026.
“Optimisation works in seasons. Soil works in decades.”
PUBLICATIONS
Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory
J.F. Salazar, C. Granjou, M. Kearnes, A. Krzywoszynska, and M. Tironi (eds), Bloomsbury Academic, London, UK, 2020.Cultural Understanding of Soil: The Importance of Cultural Diversity and Inner Worlds
Wenceslao J. González and Anna M. Bonet (eds.),
Springer International Publishing, 2023.Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, University of Minnesota Press, 2017.Making Time for Soil: Technoscientific Futurity and the Pace of Care
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Social Studies of Science, 45(5), 2015.The Unseen Majority: Soil Microbes as Drivers of Plant Diversity and Productivity in Terrestrial Ecosystems
Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Richard D. Bardgett, and Nico M. van Straalen, Ecology Letters. 11(3), 2008.
“Soil is not a passive surface, but a living system.”
CONTACT
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ORCID
Warsaw/Poland