Gardeners Assembly

Future Gardening: Gardeners Assembly
Sunday 1 December, 2-7pm
Zone2Source, het Glazen huis, Amstelpark

In times of ecological crisis, can the garden become a place where we can reshape our role in the ecosystem? A place where we can collectively, together with humans and other organisms, employ different practices and experiences for a more symbiotic coexistence?

What is a garden in times of climate change? How do we deal with biodiversity? What does gardening mean as an intervention if we assume co-creation, care and adaptation rather than control and domination? What role can the garden play as a testing ground for suggesting new ecological practices for the city?

The Gardeners Assembly will consist of a series of ‘Stories from the Garden’ told by various Amsterdam-based gardeners and garden artists. After which we will actively engage in small-group discussions around specific questions around practices and experiences in the garden, led by the artist-gardeners the Onkruidenier with Samar Nasrullah Khan, Genomic Gastronomy and Theun Karelse, who each have a long-term garden project in the Amstelpark. We will conclude with a circle discussion in which we will explore how we can come together and form a network to learn and exchange from each other and address the pressing challenges we face.

Anyone who is interested in gardens and gardening and their relation to artistic research is welcome! Would you like to tell us something about your garden, or do you prefer to bring something from the garden that you want to show, hear, or taste? Let us know, we will be happy to make room for that in our programme.

The Gardeners Assembly takes place on the last day of the exhibition Future Gardening: gardening as artistic practice for multispecies worldbuilding and is also the last opportunity to view the exhibition. The exhibition links the gardening practices of the Onkruidenier, Genomic Gastronomy and Theun Karelse, who each manage their own artist garden in Amstelpark. The exhibition will still be open on 1 December and all artists will be present.

Would you like to present something? e-mail community@zone2source.net