those that eat together...
2024 - Ongoing
Living Digital Archive / Website
Living Digital Archive / Website
those that eat together... is a living archive of ecological flourishing within the post-industrial soils of County Durham. It gathers images, stories, and memories which trace how life persists across landscapes that have been toxified, uprooted, and abandoned by extractive industry.
This growing archive is a digital garden, unearthing connections between people, plants, and places shaped by resilience, kinship, and care. It is abundant with communal meals, protests, weeds, soup kitchens, metallophytes, drag performances, a suffragette named after a flower, and an underground banquet.
Each story can be moved, layered, and arranged alongside others. The website remembers every change, gently reshaping the archive as a shared garden tended by its community.
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This growing archive is a digital garden, unearthing connections between people, plants, and places shaped by resilience, kinship, and care. It is abundant with communal meals, protests, weeds, soup kitchens, metallophytes, drag performances, a suffragette named after a flower, and an underground banquet.
Each story can be moved, layered, and arranged alongside others. The website remembers every change, gently reshaping the archive as a shared garden tended by its community.
Visit the Site
Credits
This work forms part of a collaboration between No More Nowt and Durham County Council as part of Digital Place Lab and is made possible thanks to the Into the Light programme. The mission of Place Lab is to use the power of culture and creativity to catalyse change at a local level.
Collaborators
Steven Walker / Ogre Studios
This work forms part of a collaboration between No More Nowt and Durham County Council as part of Digital Place Lab and is made possible thanks to the Into the Light programme. The mission of Place Lab is to use the power of culture and creativity to catalyse change at a local level.
Collaborators
Steven Walker / Ogre Studios
“In November 1984, a dinner was held in the Miners’ Welfare Hall to celebrate the strength and resilience of the community. A local drag artist from Darlington assumed regional characters on stage, invoking both the Lambton Worm and Bob Paisley. They finished the act in a dress adorned with appliqué nettles and pansies, exclaiming to the crowd “Those that eat together…“, followed by the rooms’ response “stick together!“
Anonymous submission, June 2025
As communities across County Durham add images, videos, recipes, recordings, poems, and more to each plant page, every piece of media can be moved, layered, and arranged by visitors. The website keeps track of each change, recording how stories are positioned and grouped, allowing it to continuously reorganize and recombine its contents. In this way, the archive is never fixed - it is always in flux, constantly evolving as a living, collective space shaped by those who visit and contribute to it. It is a digital garden.