Solutions
The Open Garden
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.
Interested in more details? Contact Carmen Soares at cilsores@gmail.com