Meet Pick Cook Cycle (2025)

Created by Elie Seksig

EDITORIAL DETAILS

Elie Seksig is a Swiss designer and artist trained at Ecal (CH) and Design Academy Eindhoven (NL). He produced this zine during an academic research semester with Brave New Alps in the Italian mountains of the Lagarina Valley between September 2024 and January 2025.

All contents: Elie Seksig

With special thanks to: the community of La Foresta - accademia di comunità, Krater Collective, the people living at La Foresteria, the farmers and traditional ecological knowledge holders of the Lagarina Valley, the HKB family.

Design by Elie Seksig

ISBN: 979-12-5713-000-8

TECHNICAL DETAILS

– limited print edition: 10 copies
– elements: zine, poster, theory insert
– language: English

ABOUT THIS ZINE

The zine Meet Pick Cook Cycle documents the collaborative practice-based research journey into land stewardship practices that has unfolded in the Lagarina Valley over 4 months. The zine traces and reflects on how design and experimental tools can be used to explore land-related practices that aim to bridge the gap between conservation ecology and maintenance of livelihoods.

Illustrations, diary entries, maps, photographs and anecdotes invite the reader into the journey of trial and error, joy and wonder, mess and yumminess that Elie Seksig has undertaken in both secluded and convivial settings along a section of the EuroVelo cycling route crossing the Alps.