The Collective Ruderal Garden – Lecture and workshop
2 October
Parking lot, Färgfabriken
Lecture, workshop and pop-up gallery
16.00 Opening of the Collective Ruderal Gallery and guided tours of the Ruderal Garden
16.30 Lecture on urban plants with urban ecologist Yannick Woudstra
17.00 Workshop – The Ruderal Hyper Local Flora
Free entrance and no reservation.
Garden Loops: Alexandra Papademetriou, Mercè Torres, Natalie Blom och Poppy Bell
The Ruderal Garden is a semi-wild, semi-cultivated landscape. It’s an artistic research project exploring the potential of ruderal plants – often seen as undesirable weeds – in strengthening ecosystems and decontaminating polluted cityscapes. The Ruderal Garden is run by Garden Loops – an art and architecture collective consisting of Alexandra Papademetriou, Mercè Torres, Natalie Blom and Poppy Bell in collaboration with Färgfabriken.
Program
Lecture, workshop and pop-up gallery Wednesday 2 October 16.00–18.00
16.00 Opening of the Collective Ruderal Gallery and guided tours of the Ruderal Garden
16.30 Lecture on urban plants with Yannick Woudstra – Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant sciences at Stockholm University.
17.00 Workshop – The Ruderal Hyper Local Flora
Ruderal Collective Gallery
Temporary photo exhibition in the Ruderal Garden where Garden Loops asked people to submit photos of their local ruderal gardens through an open call.
Workshop – Ruderal Hyper Local Flora
A workshop where visitors are invited to a guided tour through the Ruderal Garden and an introduction to the ongoing work with The Hyper Local Flora Book. Participants will be invited contribute to the flora by documenting a plant (or Ruderal element) on Lövholmen.
Participants
Garden Loops is an international collective of architects and artists based between Gothenburg and Stockholm. Their practice explores local ecologies and food systems through a more-than-human lens. It is composed of Poppy Bell, Natalie Blom, Mercè Torres and Alexandra Papademetriou. Through practices such as collective farming, foraging, fermenting, cooking, and eating, Garden Loops reconceptualizes urbanity, fosters community, and cultivates care and sensitivity towards the natural world. Garden Loops uses workshops to facilitate open and shared learning and storytelling working to create collaborative networks and interdisciplinary dialogues.
Yannick Woudstra – Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant sciences at Stockholm University where he’s currently funded by the Sven & Lily Lawski stipendium to characterise how pollen deteriorates in asexual dandelions. In his work on urban ecology, he studies the biological adaptations acquired by dandelions to cope with urbanisation. After studying several Dutch cities, he now hopes to expand this research into Stockholm and other Nordic cities. The project is a collaboration with the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and Naturalis Biodiversity Center in The Netherlands.