Cinema Talk: Caring Practices

A conversation and film screening and discussion exploring sheep, care, and multispecies coexistence. Join for a Friday morning viewing and discussion with Merve Bektaş about her research and five part film Care x Wools. We will go into what has she discovered from her taking the experiences of sheep into the story and discuss what sheep can teach us about care and multispecies coexistence. Panelist: Pollyanna Moss (host) Merve Bektaş (eco-social designer, researcher) Care x Wools is a project of Seçil Uğur Yavuz and Merve Bektaş and a public programme developed within the Feral Wool project at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Faculty of Design and Art & Competence Centre for Mountain Innovation Ecosystems). The research took place throughout 2025 in Südtirol/Alto Adige, Italy, in collaboration with local stakeholders.