The Hope-Field is a Land Art - sculpture and based on the agricultural method of hop cultivation. The basic structure is the result of the understanding the basic needs of the hop plant: it grows up to 7 meters vertically into the sky.

The Hope-Field-project creates and symbolizes hope regarding a certain piece of land. „Hop“ is therefore the only plant that thrives in this network-structure. Simultaneously the creation of the Land Art – sculpture itself produces a basis for social networking. Individual hope and the will to help, work as a kind of fuel for common activities. This sculpture can only grow in a teamwork process. The participants work on common ground and common objectives and values. By striving up and linking the wire bonds commonly, the linking structure of the Hope-Field is used to draw a network of wires into the sky. The Hope-Field works emblematical as a social sewing machine.

Joachim Eckl startet the development of Hope-Field projects in Palestine, Israel and Egypt in 2005 together with Trish Dickinson, Rob Verschoor, Ina de Bruyn and Anabel Fornell-Watson.