Planting Communities: Remedial Cartographies – Autumn
Workshop
15.00-17.00
Save the Date
For adults and teenagers older than 14
in German/in English/in Turkish
This four-part workshop series, held in Spore’s garden, builds upon a curriculum offered by Şaduman Karaca and Hilal Alkan throughout the gardening season. It invites participants into an exploration of medicinal plants and foods, and the sense of belonging they carry for us, by collaborating on food and medicinal cartographies in the shape of plant mandalas.
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Plant mandalas are circular, visual mappings made from locally available edible and healing plants, arranged to reflect their seasonal presence and uses. As a form of living cartography, they chart ecological rhythms—what grows when, where–and show relations of these plants and foods to the human body, culture, and climate. By collaborating on the mandalas, participants come to understand their relationship with a place and its seasons through the plants that nourish and heal them, cultivating awareness of seasonal abundance, loss, and continuity while deepening their sense of belonging within a specific landscape.
Through these mapping exercises, we will explore whether reconnecting with the soil and plants can help us to feel more grounded, and ease our adaptation to different seasons, climates and landscapes.
This series will be of interest to anyone engaged in cultural or pedagogical work relating to nature, urban gardening projects or community health and support initiatives.
In the autumn session, we will map edible seeds and garden produce.