Guerrilla gardeners transform urban spaces through acts of ecological regeneration, adding aliveness to cities that are increasingly sterile, gentrified, and ill-prepared for climate collapse. In times when our sense of agency feels fragmented, could this multi-species rebellion be a practice worthy of closer attention?
Like graffiti or skateboarding, guerrilla gardening appropriates the streets. However, its language is one of care, protesting with and for aliveness.
The ‘‘dissident act’’ of seeding native, edible, or remediating species acts towards a more diverse urban ecology and calls for new modalities of democratic participation in shaping the built environment.
We reflect on how direct urban action can serve as a channel for broader social and political protest through care practices. What can guerrilla gardeners teach us about self-organized stewardship of urban ecosystems and building resilience?
With an urgent need for urban resilience, for mending relations with the living world, we developed a set of zines that explore practices of ecological regeneration of our surroundings. So far, two publications have been realized, more may follow soon.
ZINE 01 ON NOTICING
A set of practices encourage us to notice and interact with our surroundings. This magazine is the first of a series that will aim to explore city care through the lenses of gardening. To start with, this first volume will look at ways to notice our cities differently to uncover their regenerative potential.
A pair of new lenses.
ZINE 02 ON BUILDING FERTILE SOIL
Aliveness is something that must be build bottom-up, as the nature of the practices we will be sharing in this zine that explores soil remediation through traditional techniques such as hugelkultur.
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TYPE: Research
COLLABORATORS: David Quijada, Ines Peyro, Riel Bessai, Dimitra Tolsi, Paula Hueso
Graphic design by Alicia Ville
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