The two-year research project Making Sense continues in 2025 with the joint effort of students, trees, birds, wild plants, fungi and their symbiotic partners as a community garden. We're gardening together.
Steeped in the literature by Donna Haraway, Anna L; Tsing, Jamaica Kincaid, Rachel Carson, Derek Jarman, Vinciane Despret and many others we work with books, words, thoughts, images, and more-than-human perspectives as well as shovels, rakes, watering cans, pruning scissors, and other utensils. These are garden utensils for working with nature and thinking with nature, to engage so fully we become gardeners, and let the garden change us as well. It is the garden who makes us into gardeners.
This research project will continue till September 2025, and it allows me to engage in the history of the garden of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Curiosity leads the way, we experiment with rewilding the lawns and borders while keeping the original character of the garden intact. Please contact me if you would like to know more about this project and the academy garden evolution.
Find out more here: https://elinedc.blogspot.com/p/the-royal-academy-of-antwerp-garden.html
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| Wild flower patches in autumn, the pompom contains seeds to be dispersed by the wind. |
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| A slightly more messy attitude in gardening expresses the sense of freedom fitting for an academy garden. |
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| While the garden looks less cared for in autumn, these are the really busy days of seeding and preparing for next year's biodiversity in support of local ecology. |
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