Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Gardening for Gardening’s Sake
Post by Jennifer Hamilton (This post is the latest in a series of reflections on Jeffrey Hou’s recent talk, “Urban Gardening as Insurgent Placemaking.” For the first piece in this series, please click here.) It “started with the park, but it has become bigger than the park†declared Turkish scholar and activist Nazan Ustundag on…
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Urban Gardening, “Treibstoff,†and The Desire for Community
What would you get if you mixed together “Treibstoff,†the Viennese countercultural group that parks converted trucks in disused urban spaces, and the community gardening scene described by Jeffrey Hou in his recent lecture? Both movements have attracted considerable interest of late: The members of “Treibstoff†were profiled in a documentary screened at the DOK.fest…