Harvest Salon is a design and filmmaking collective founded by Livni Holtz, Sebastian Reinicke and Nicolas Seiler.
Based in Germany and Switzerland, they
work at the intersection of process design and spatial development,
seeking to foster emancipatory processes within communities through artistic research and interventions.
Rooted in an ongoing engagement with an Alpine farming community and its communal labor system,
their work explores new ways of engaging with and relating to rurality. Addressing the expanding urban-rural divide,
Harvest Salon aims to establish platforms for cross-regional engagement, grounded in shared responsibilities for common resources.
Their first film, How to Lease a Cow, screened at Dutch Design Week 2024, Melted Film festival and Galerie 111.
At the Furka residency program in:dépendance, initiated by the ETH Zurich Chair for Architecture and Attitude of Prof. Jan De Vylder,
they published “Stories of Alpine Commons”. They are exhibiting the ongoing project Käsesyndikat,
which serves as a platform
for cultural and social exchange on sustaining shared resources, not as commodities, but as catalysts for relational world-building.
In 2024, the collective became LINA fellows, further advancing their design-research and filmmaking practice
in collaboration with institutions affiliated with the European platform.