SONE “Songs Of Nearby Earth” is a project that approaches the territory and landscape of Jerez de la Frontera through co-creation in different artistic and design practices that integrate popular knowledge, landscape practices, local cultural expressions and emblematic elements such as ceramics, viticulture and singing.
Inspired by local practices such as vine arbours (emparrados) and rituals such as zambombas, the project seeks to open up spaces for reflection on challenges such as climate adaptation, energy transition and landscape transformation.
SONE is an artistic project, but also a strategy to activate community dynamics from a biocultural and situated perspective. It adopts a transdisciplinary approach aimed at building networks among civic collectives, rethinking Jerez’s relationship with its past, present and future. Therefore, SONE proposes a process in which different local groups play a central role, working with the materiality and life cycle of the ceramic object (zambomba instrument), with the ritual and lyrics (zambomba celebration) and the renaturalisation (vine arbours), to provide not only space for reflection, but also for action: the intervention of public space through Nature-Cultural Based Solutions that use the know-how and tradition of vine arbours as a climate improvement device.
To this end, Nomad Garden, Estelle Jullian and Valeria Reyes Soto (Fundarte) have been developing a communication tool in collaboration with the local communities engaged in SONE. This serves as both a meeting point and a digital channel, giving participants—and the wider public—a space to share their voices, discover the work of other local actors, and exchange findings and progress. The SONE blog also invites any citizen to contribute to a participatory mapping process to gather data on the vineyards currently existing in Jerez, both in public and even within private spaces.
Learn more and follow the SONE project at: palimpsestjerez.gardenatlas.net | IG: sone.jerez
Published on: September 8, 2025
