Guide for the expanded garden project

During the Interreg project DANUrB, working with local communities was a key issue. We focused on processes which can be adapted in small towns and provide knowledge and tools for people to valorise their heritage and improve their environment. In this guide, we introduce The Expanded Garden workshop, one of our activity related to participatory processes in education. The Expanded Garden works with art interventions, called micro-laboratories, which focus on the interrelations of critical education, contemporary art practices and urban environmental policies. Interventions took place in different schoolyards and their surroundings. Based on the assumption that education can take place in every moment and everywhere, the micro-laboratories constitute an expanded territory of performative learning, a place of playful reflection about urban-rural space, aiming at reflecting on our daily ecological behaviour.

Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA, ENI).