GARDEN [Green social space]
Eat, create, reflect and heal from the seeds we sow and the fruits we harvest. The garden is a laboratory for creation, reflection and well-being.
For practices at the intersection of ecology, care, and community. A slow-growing space for those cultivating common ground across distance by sharing knowledge, places, traditions, and people around Schöppingen (and other latitudes).
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Permaculture In Residence
Artist residencies are places that offer such a (protective) space. As facilitators of artistic development, they can become strategic incubators for new practices in art and culture in general. They challenge our imagination, are breeding grounds for collective models of thought and provide the context for new routines. They are much needed sites for connections – within one’s own work and directed outwards. These connections are important because they strengthen relationships, reciprocity, reflection and responsibility, and ultimately draw attention to the “how."
Julia Haarmann - Stiftung Künstler*dorf Director (2021 - 2026)
The Transgender Herb Garden: An MtF Guide to Disconnecting One's Self from Big Pharma. A 2009 anarchist zine by FlyingOtter that describes home-grown herbs (geranium, marjoram, oregano, sage, and fennel) as a self-directed alternative to pharmaceutical hormones for trans women. The author frames the advice as personal experience rather than medical guidance and closes with reflections on gender as a social construct tied to capitalism. Distributed under an anti-copyright notice.
In 2022, artist Yoeri Guépin was invited to create a garden at küntler*dorf, transforming a part of the residency into a shared space for growing, gathering and being together.
Working with gardens as both an artistic and social medium, Guépin introduced a diversity of plants and edible species into the ecosystem of the Künstlerdorf. Over the course of the year, the garden became much more than a place to cultivate plants. It became a meeting point for the fellows, a space where community grew alongside the garden itself.
Through planting, harvesting, cooking and sharing its produce, the fellows developed a relationship with the rhythms of the seasons and the living environment around them. The garden invited them to slow down, care for one another and recognise their interdependence with other forms of life.
For Guépin, gardens are places where new ecosystems and communities can emerge, creating lasting structures of care and revealing the connections between humans, plants and the histories of a place.
What flourished here was not only a garden, but a shared experience of growth, nourishment and belonging.
"Towards Permacultural Institutions. Exercises in Collective Thinking", Photo By ©Camilo Pachón