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Temporary
Gardens
through temporary gardens; a seminar focused,
among other things, on garden festivals,
the history of the idea of temporary
gardens, land art, allotments, and social
projects in public spaces; and an exhibition
on the following topics: Community Gardens,
Zwischennutzung, the projects Temporäre
Gärten©, Plant a Tree!, Estonoesunsolar
and works by NeSpoon. Temporary Gardens
also included the Red Swing project and the
10 PLN Garden competition, culminating in
a presentation of gardens during the project
finale.
The Temporary Gardens:
Revitalising Neglected
Urban Spaces project was an
attempt to claim no-man’s
land. Artists and landscape
architects teamed up with local
residents to analyse, design
and transform designated
spaces into temporary gardens.
The project culminated in
the (Con)temporary Gardens
exhibition, the seminar Time
in Temporary Gardens and the
10 PLN Garden competition.
The project was carried out
by WyspArt Foundation in
collaboration with k Studio.
t
emporary Gardens was a continuation
of other revitalisation
projects by WyspArt Foundation
and k Studio. In 2006 Anna Komorowska
ran a project called Podgórze Courtyard
Gardens in a partnership with Podgórze.pl.
In 2008 WyspArt Foundation completed the
Nowa Huta: Social Revitalisation Through
Art project, funded by the Polish Ministry of
Culture and National Heritage. The project
was inspired by the festival Temporäre
Gärten, run by Daniel Sprenger and Marc
Pouzol between 1997 and 2008, as well as
other projects at the interface of art and
landscape architecture.
the project
The main part of the project was a collaboration
of artists and landscape architects
with residents of the Kraków area of
Podgórze. Partners included a local school,
cultural centre, publishing house and a gallery
housed in the former Miraculum factory.
The workshops were held in May and
June and produced four temporary gardens.
The project’s finale, the Temporary Garden
Festival, consisted of three parts: a walk
target groups / methods
Temporary Gardens was geared toward children,
youth and adults. The objective of the
project was to engage participants to inject
life into Podgórze courtyards by creating
an art installation that explored the
subject of gardens. Landscape workshops
aimed to motivate participants, inspire them
to engage in creative activities and integrate
Podgórze residents.
Workshop participants were recruited
from three age groups: students from grades
4-6 at Elementary School No. 29 in Kraków,
adult owners of an art studio housed in the
former Miraculum factory, and senior citizens
involved with Podgórze Cultural Centre.
Each group consisted of about 15 participants
who met with artists and landscape
architects, discussed, designed and created
their own garden. The walk though the gardens,
intended for representatives of local
organisations and the general public, aimed
to encourage new initiatives and changes to
neglected urban spaces.
funding
The project was funded by the Ministry of
Culture and National Heritage. The creative
partner was k Studio. Other partners