Gardens in Transformation

Project management: Prof. Dr. Michaela Fenske

Gardens are places of special possibilities. Following the sociologist Michel Foucault, they can be interpreted as heterotopias, a kind of lived utopia. Gardens are also gaining socio-ecological significance in the current times of multiple crises. The research project asks how the current crises are perceived, experienced and shaped in gardens by those working there. What role do gardens play regarding the human perception of species extinction? What experiences do people in gardens have with climate change? What possibilities do gardens offer for shaping the socio-ecological transformation of our societies?

As a contribution to cultural environmental research, the project focuses on gardens as social and ecological spaces of experience. In the sense of the biologist Donna Haraway, they are understood as “places of kinmaking”.

Materials

Interview in Politik & Kultur. Zeitung des Deutschen Kulturrats. Nr. 6/23 | Juni 2023

Ein Garten der Vielen. Michaela Fenske im Gespräch über Gärten & sozial-ökologischen Wandel

Cooperation partner

 

Christine Bender

• Agricultural Councilor at the Horticultural Centre Bayern Nord
• District manager of the fruit and horticultural associations
•  „Bayern blüht Naturgarten“ certification in Unterfranken

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Angelika Feiner

• Regional technical counselling Landesverband Bayerischer Kleingärtner e.V. 

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Gottfried Roell 

• Team of the garden telephone of the Bayerischen Gartenakademie

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Marianne Scheu-Helgert

• until 2023 Head of the Bayerischen Gartenakademie

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Christine Scherer 

• Team of the garden telephone of the Bayerischen Gartenakademie

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Claudia Schönmüller 

• Head of the Bavarian Garden Academy since 2023Bayerischen Gartenakademie

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Isolde Keil-Vierheilig 

• Team of the garden telephone of the Bayerischen Gartenakademie