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The Journal

Meditations on Slowness through photography, film, art and original reportage.

The Long Talk
SLOWNESS CONVERSATION

Dialogues in Presence: Sasha Waltz

Dialoge — Reethaus, presented in May 2026, brings the highly acclaimed work of Sasha Waltz into conversation with a landmark of contemporary sacral architecture, extending a lifelong exchange between the dancer and the life of buildings. In this Slowness Conversation, she discusses the specific practices of awareness that make this exploratory work possible.
FEATURE
SOURCING SLOWNESS

Omotenashi: A Philosophy of Hello

Exploring divergent histories of aesthetics, Aurora Solá traces the contours of omotenashi, Japan's elusive art of hospitality. Reading across Okakura Kakuzō, Junichirō Tanizaki and Donald Richie, she proposes that omotenashi belongs to a wider tradition of practice in Japan that treats beauty and ethics as two faces of the same impulse.
FEATURE
RADICAL UTOPIAS

The Long Wave: Metamorphosis and The Age of Love

At certain moments in history, the machinery of progress seems to pause, recalibrate, and pivot toward something unexpected. This new instalment of our “Radical Utopias” series explores a little-known economic theory that suggests that we find ourselves at just such a Great Turning.
IMMERSIVE LEARNING
Multimedia

On Drones: Monotony, Perception and the Aesthetics of Infinity

This contribution to the Slowness Journal explores a deep thread that runs through much of what we program at Reethaus.
TRAVELOGUE
Slow Pilgrimage

A Journey into Alentejo

From the Lisbon neighborhood that birthed a melancholic musical tradition to the timeworn fishing villages of Alentejo, we set out on a voyage into the Portuguese heart of the global slow movement.
FEATURE
Radical Utopias

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift

For the first installment of our series exploring radical and avant-garde collectives of the past, we look at The Kindred of Kibbo Kift, a pacifist camping, hiking and handicraft group founded in England in 1920 that’s been recently embraced by a new generation of creative minds.
Sourcing Slowness
Feature

Portugal's Small Organic Producers

From oyster breeders to dairy farmers, we visit some of Portugal’s best organic, artisanal producers with chef João Rodrigues, founder of the nonprofit platform Matéria, on a quest to source our projects in Portugal.
MULTIMEDIA
IMMERSIVE LEARNING

Encyclopedia of the Farm

Follow the fruits and vegetables of La Granja from soil to sustenance and uncover their nutritional and cultural significance with the farmers, cooks, critters and creative minds who make the farm what it is today.
Through the Lens
Interview

Exploring Faith with Primary Paper

What is faith today, and how do we convey it through images? The photography magazine cofounded by the art director of Slowness takes us on a journey through faith from deeply rooted cultural traditions to modern-day notions of techno-animism.
interview
Into the Mind of Arno Brandlhuber
A first look at the architect’s ambitious new headquarters in a former East Berlin graphite silo. In the 15 years since he founded his practice in Berlin, Arno Brandlhuber has left an indelible stamp on the German architectural scene with his daring neo-brutalist constructions.
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Contact
FLUSSBAD
Zur Alten Flussbadeanstalt 1
10317 Berlin, Germany
GENERAL
hello@slowness.com
Press
press@slowness.com
Talent
careers@slowness.com
Website by Studio Airport