02Field Sites 





The team will carry out fieldwork in the Netherlands and Spain. Each of the Work Packages (WPs) is a comparative, thematic study in both sites (Spain and the Netherlands) that contributes

to the project’s interrogation of how sustainability is understood and performed by different actors in diverse  contexts, with each WP organised around one of these four themes: (1) multispecies relations, (2) digitalisation , (3) toxicities, and (4) sustainability presents, pasts, and futures.




The unique multisited and multispecies character of this project will yield a high gain by ethnographically elucidating how sustainability transitions in greenhouse horticulture are taking place in two different countries. Rather than assuming that we all know andagree what sustainability is, this study looks at how different versions of sustainability are understood, implemented, resisted, and shaped in specific practices.
©VITALGREENHOUSE 2025
AUGUST 2024 → AUGUST 2029
This project has received funding from the European Union’s ERC Starting under grand agreements n° 101115557.