When we hear the word 'land,' we might think of real estate to buy, soil to farm, or landscapes to wander. In cities, the land question also shapes our environment in many ways: it encompasses national belonging, homes near and far, borders, and citizenship lines, as well as the struggle for capital linked to space and the soil itself. The varied and disputed meanings of “land” reflect our complex relations with the grounds we inhabit. Today, the interlocked crises of the environment and displacement call for a restructuring of those relations. With this aim, The Earth We Tread has drawn on insurgent practices, particularly global land-use movements, from rural, diasporic and indigenous perspectives. Between 2025 and 2026, the seminar and study group researched ways to represent and act on land beyond extraction.   The presentation will introduce the guiding themes, exercises for artistic and design research, and the glossary of land practices that resulted from a year of engagement. Beginning in summer 2025, we have applied counter-cartography, walking practices, mapping workshops, and artistic and design research to understand and intervene in ecopolitical sites in Berlin. The project sought to describe and participate in concrete land relations that blur boundaries used to justify subjugation, such as human/non-human, nature/culture, developed/undeveloped, and urban/rural. Drawing from commoning, non-Western epistemologies, and insurgent practices, the project cut across disciplinary and hemispheric boundaries in search of the continual production of space on the ground.   The Earth We Tread connected university students and academic scholarship with initiatives, practitioners, and everyday spaces across Berlin, initiating a network of spaces and people concerned with insurgent land practices in the city and beyond. The publication “The earth we tread: a glossary of intimate and insurgent land practices,” collectively edited by seminar participants, gathers contributions of over twenty participants speaking from Germany, Brazil, the United States, Kurdistan, Romania, and more.