‘I Call It Botanarchy’: The Hackney Guerrilla Gardener Bringing Power to the People
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‘I Call It Botanarchy’: The Hackney Guerrilla Gardener Bringing Power to the People
Gardening is not just a set of tasks. It’s not restricted to backyards, courtyards, balconies. It can, and should, happen anywhere, everywhere. Gardening is simply a framework for engagement with our world, grounded in care, action and intimacy with place. To garden is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and ... See more
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
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Planning → Gardening: Numerous people from architects to permaculturists have advocated the move from top down ‘planning’, towards the nurturing practice of gardening, when we design cities.
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
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one of the millions of green shoots forcing their way through the cracks in the concrete, each defying the headline narrative of decline that dominates our time.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
I think that so much of what I've sort of come to to believe is that you can be and participate in the world but keep a distance from it and that having a a garden something that you're growing a plot of land that is your own that reflects your intentions is a very powerful antidote uh to this um to the chaos um of the of the external um um
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Sublime • How I Build My Personal Knowledge Library W Sari Azout
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There are a growing number of school strikes, kids walking out and demanding governments take climate change seriously. A new spirit of rebellion is rising. How would it be if each of those demonstrations, actions, strikes, always included some kind of manifestation of the future they want to see? Gardens, visual projections onto buildings, art ins
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
They could be devoted to expressing an idea; as Rebecca Solnit put it, ‘if war has an opposite, gardens might sometimes be it, and people have found a particular kind of peace in forests, meadows, parks, and gardens’.