17 October 2018 — 30 April 2019
Justyna Jakubiec
The Open Garden
Curator
Rotterdam
Location
Gdańsk
Photographer
Flanders
The Open Garden is a research-based experiment across three locations (Rotterdam, Gdańsk, Flanders) that aims to establish a holistic perspective on community gardening by identifying and spatializing existing initiatives of that kind, together with their challenges.
Comprising an online library, gardening workshops, and an open garden prototype, this solution reimagines community gardens as places of care and ecological regeneration. The Open Garden runs in parallel with the Open Kitchen to be integrated into an exhibition in Rotterdam, with the showcase of the “open garden kitchen prototype” and the launching of a design manual for replicability. The exhibition will later travel to other partner locations. Target groups include, but are not limited to: local communities, cultivators, urbanists, (food) designers, soil specialists, garden designers, research institutes, academia, and policy makers.
Team
Justyna Jakubiec
Utrecht University
Justyna is a research assistant at Utrecht University and has a media and culture studies background. After completing her bachelor’s degree in art history with a specialisation in Arts, Media and Society at Leiden University, she continued with a research master’s in Media, Art and Performance Studies at Utrecht University. She worked as a research assistant in the research project IMAGINE: Contested Futures of Sustainability based at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO), in which she researched social imaginaries of sustainable consumption across various textual, visual and audial materials (including films, novels, and policy reports based in Oslo and Norway). She is now part of the CONVIVIUM project, in which she researches community gardening initiatives through ‘The Open Garden’ solution. Interested in the intersection between media, art (science fiction film in particular), ecology, material culture, philosophy and social imaginaries of technology, she works with perspectives from the arts and humanities and advocates them as crucial to rethink notions and issues based on other research fields, including food consumption.
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