Workshop RG03︎︎︎ The Ruderal Garden: Explore and Draw (2025)
The third workshop in The Ruderal Garden took place in fall 2025 inviting the public to explore and draw ruderal species inhabiting the garden. Focusing on leaves as fall unravels, the leaves are dramatically changing. We examined their colour, shape, tiny hairs, fungi growing on them and insect eggs layed on them. Equipped with magnifying glasses and sketching materials, we explored the plants growing in post-industrial Lövholmen.
What is the role of ruderal species in the urban ecosystem? Come to our ruderal garden and learn how these unruly and tenacious plants emerging from the rubble reshape disturbed landscapes through their adaptable and creative nature.
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.
What is the role of ruderal species in the urban ecosystem? Come to our ruderal garden and learn how these unruly and tenacious plants emerging from the rubble reshape disturbed landscapes through their adaptable and creative nature.
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