Gardens of Care
Times in Common
A Participatory Space
6. June 2026 - 6. June 2027
Opening Hours
Thursday: 3 p.m.-8 p.m.
Friday: 3 p.m.-8 p.m.
Saturday: noon-8 p.m.
Sunday: noon-8 p.m.
Opening Hours
Thursday: 3 p.m.-8 p.m.
Friday: 3 p.m.-8 p.m.
Saturday: noon-8 p.m.
Sunday: noon-8 p.m.
Save the Date
For free
all ages welcome
in German/multilingual
My mother made what we needed. She knitted for the family, taught others, and shared what she had. When someone was sick or in need, she cooked and sent us to gather ingredients from neighbors. We learned by taking part—where things came from, when they were available, and how to ask. This is how knowledge moved: through doing, through repetition, through being with others.
Paraphrased from memories shared by João Albertini.
Times in Common is a participatory space: an invitation to contribute and engage with artists, community members, elders, and everyday experts whose knowledge is passed on through hands and practices in kitchens, gardens, and neighborhoods. Experiences carried across generations, different practices of mutual aid and learning, the rhythms embedded in land, plants, and pollinators inform the works and contributions in this evolving project.
Times in Common grows from Spore's ongoing work with its community as well as neighbourhood, and invites collaborations to take shape. Here, learning with one another means taking part: coming to understand materials, seasons, and living environments by engaging with them directly. Those times in common are little more than accumulated acts of doing and care.
What you'll encounter is a set of ongoing practices: neighbourhood groups observing birds and insects; others mapping plants that nourish and heal. The Remedial Cartographies group discusses community perspectives on health and nutrition while Planting Communities' seed library offers their approach of learning about seed saving and maintaining the library's stock. Kweli's textile repair and upcycling workshop is open to all who want to learn and teach, especially young people. Reciprocity is a condition for these practices.
Times in Common is a meeting point where people of different ages, especially those in and around Spore's neighboring communities, can visit, listen, participate, and contribute. The space primarily operates in German and English, but your contributions are welcome in all languages.
You might come to visit and leave having shared something of your own.
Contributors:
Mariana Alcantara, Hilal Alkan, Şaduman Karaca, Hülya Karci, Kweli e.V., Cecilia Moo, Adriana Otero, Planting Communities and thematic work groups, Jule Roschlau, Michelle Teran, U Yits Kaan, Sebastian Warne and future contributors.
