Workshop RG02︎︎︎ The Collective Local Ruderal Garden (2024)
The second workshop in The Ruderal Garden took place in fall 2024 following an open call for the public to share photos of their local ruderal gardens. The workshop was a combined lecture by ecologist Yannick Woudstra, an exhibition of local Ruderal Gardens and a collective mapping of ruderal plants surrounding Färgfabriken.
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 – in collaboration with Färgfabriken and Yannick Woudstra - Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant sciences at Stockholm University.
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 – in collaboration with Färgfabriken and Yannick Woudstra - Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant sciences at Stockholm University.
Ruderal plants inhabit environments usually considered inhospitable to human eyes – cracks in sidewalks, industrial sites, waste disposal areas – but are in fact rich and diverse ecosystems. In The Ruderal Garden, we explore the idea of the gardener as a multispecies actor (human, animal or plant) who cares for the Garden. The project takes place at Färgfabriken, where we build an exhibition garden which embeds our ideas and research on ruderal landscapes in public space.
Photos: Garden Loops