BUILDING FOREST
garden group was cooperation partner of Klima Biennale
Thank you for taking part in:
ROOTED RESILIENCE: A TREE DEMONSTRATION!
Rooted Resilience is a public demonstration with and for trees in Vienna’s city centre. Grown at Naschgarten (Vienna) for a City-Forest, the Garden Group carries around a dozen trees in wheelbarrows accompanied by noise and people to take space in the city. The demonstration will end at the Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz Courtyard and we will place the trees in wheelbarrows as an installation on the parking lot of the rectorate.
Join the protest and make noise! The starting point of the demonstration is at the intersection Lampigasse/Scherzergasse, 2nd district at 18h. The end point is the OKP courtyard (parking lot) at 8pm.
This semester’s focus of garden group is initiating forest plantings using the “Miyawaki Tiny Forest” method, by forming networks – people and other living beings – to contribute to the eco-social transformation of the city.
The project is centered around their BUILDING FOREST sessions, taking place at Verein Naschgarten, Rosiwalgasse 37, in the 10th district. Additionally, there will be workshops on Seedbomb making- and distribution and Dyeing with Natural Tree Dyes, taking place in the Atelier at Heiligenkreuzerhof and lastly the preparations of their main event:
Rooted Resilience: A Tree Demonstration; 26.6.24 from 6pm
At certain dates, there will be an OPEN FENSTERBAR
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MAY 2024
Date: Friday 24th of May 2024, 3 pm – 7.30 pm
What: WORKSHOP Dyeing with natural tree dyes part I
Bring a t-shirt, 100% cotton, white or light-colored
Location: Heiligenkreuzerhof, Kleiner Hof Stiege 8 / Groundfloor
Entrance Grashofgasse 3 or Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Vienna
Registration for both parts needed, people are open to bring organic matter (to be announced)
OPEN FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
Registration needed: nicole.miltner@uni-ak.ac.at
Date: Saturday 25th of May 2024, 11 am – 6 pm
What: WORKSHOP Dyeing with natural tree dyes part II
Location: Heiligenkreuzerhof, Kleiner Hof Stiege 8 / Groundfloor
Entrance Grashofgasse 3 or Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Vienna
Registration für both parts needed
OPEN FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
Registration needed: nicole.miltner@uni-ak.ac.at
Date: Wednesday 29th of May 2024, 3 pm – 5.30 pm
What: Prepsession #6
Working on Demo & BUILDING FOREST APPLICATION
Location: Heiligenkreuzerhof, Kleiner Hof Stiege 8 / Groundfloor
Entrance Grashofgasse 3 or Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Vienna
OPEN FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
Registration needed: ritger.traag@uni-ak.ac.at
JUNE 2024
Date: Friday 7th of June 2024, 5 pm – 7.30 pm
What: Prepsession #7
Working on Demo & BUILDING FOREST APPLICATION
Location: Heiligenkreuzerhof, Kleiner Hof Stiege 8 / Groundfloor
Entrance Grashofgasse 3 or Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Vienna
OPEN FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
Registration needed: ritger.traag@uni-ak.ac.at
Date: Wednesday 12th of June 2024, 3 pm – 5.30 pm
What: Prepsession #8
Working on Demo & BUILDING FOREST APPLICATION
Location: Heiligenkreuzerhof, Kleiner Hof Stiege 8 / Groundfloor
Entrance Grashofgasse 3 or Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Vienna
OPEN FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
Registration needed: ritger.traag@uni-ak.ac.at
Date: Wednesday 19th of June 2024, 3 pm – 5.30 pm
What: Prepsession #9
Working on demo & BUILDING FOREST APPLICATION
Location: Heiligenkreuzerhof, Kleiner Hof Stiege 8 / Groundfloor
Entrance Grashofgasse 3 or Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Vienna
OPEN FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
Registration needed: ritger.traag@uni-ak.ac.at
Date: Wednesday 22nd of May 2024, 3 pm – 5.30 pm
What: Prepsession #5
Working on demo & prepping for color dyeing with natural tree dyes
Location: Heiligenkreuzerhof, Kleiner Hof Stiege 8 / Groundfloor
Entrance Grashofgasse 3 or Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Vienna
OPEN FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
Registration needed: ritger.traag@uni-ak.ac.at
Date: Friday 17th of May 2024, 5 pm – 7.30 pm
What: Prepsession #4
Working on Demo & BUILDING FOREST APPLICATIONS
Location: Heiligenkreuzerhof, Kleiner Hof Stiege 8 / Groundfloor
Entrance Grashofgasse 3 or Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Vienna
OPEN FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
Registration needed: ritger.traag@uni-ak.ac.at
Date: Saturday 11th of May 2024, 11 am – 4 pm
What: BUILDING FORESTS #8
Location: Verein Naschgarten, Rosiwalgasse 37, 1100 Vienna
Registration needed: ritger.traag@uni-ak.at
OPEN FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
Date: Wednesday 8th of May 2024, 3 pm – 5.30 pm
What: SEEDBOMB DISTRIBUTION WALK part II
OPEN FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
Meeting point: Heiligenkreuzerhof, Kleiner Hof Stiege 8 / Groundfloor
Entrance Grashofgasse 3 or Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Vienna
OPEN FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
Registration needed: ritger.traag@uni-ak.ac.at
Date: Friday 3rd of May 2024, 5 pm – 7.30 pm
What: Prepsession #3 / OPEN FENSTERBAR
with homemade Kfa Artemesia Spritz
Location: Heiligenkreuzerhof, Kleiner Hof Stiege 8 / Groundfloor
Entrance Grashofgasse 3 or Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Vienna
OPEN FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
Registration needed: ritger.traag@uni-ak.ac.at
Date: Wednesday 1st of May 2024, 3 pm – 5.30 pm
What: SEEDBOMB MAKING part I
Location: Heiligenkreuzerhof, Kleiner Hof Stiege 8 / Groundfloor
Entrance Grashofgasse 3 or Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Vienna
OPEN FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
Registration needed: ritger.traag@uni-ak.ac.at
PROJECT: SNOW FOOD & CLIMATE POLITICS
a cooperation with city farm
date+time date I (planting) Thursday October 5, 1–3pm
location City Farm near Augarten, meeting point at the entrance
hosted by garden group
with Wolfgang Palme, Ingrid Greisenegger (City Farm
Klasse für Alle will be taking care of a SNOW FOOD BEET in the winter semester (October to February) at City Farm near Augarten. Guided by Wolfgang Palme and Ingrid Greisenegger, we will not only learn practically how snow food can be planted, cared for in winter and harvested, but also talk about climate politics and how soil, food and politics are connected.
Over three dates, we will plant on site as a group, tend and harvest the bed, and in between learn about the science behind SNOW FOOD while walking around this great garden. The first date is a Thursday, then the next dates will be Saturday mornings.
SNOW FOOD & CLIMATE POLITICS II
observing snow food, plus: soil analysis, guided tour through city farm
with Pablo Ruiz, Ingrid Greisenegger (City Farm)
date+time date Friday November 17, 2–4 pm
location City Farm near Augarten, meeting point at the entrance
SNOW FOOD & CLIMATE POLITICS III
harvesting snow food
with Wolfgang Palme (City Farm)
date+time date Friday December 15, 2–4 pm
location City Farm near Augarten, meeting point at the entrance
PROJECT: BUILDING FOREST TOGETHER
with Johannes Wiener
dates Saturdays (see dates below), always 11 am – 4 pm
location Sessions take place at Naschgarten Zukunftshof, Rosiwalgasse 37, 1100 Wien
Always dress warm (even if the weather looks promising), bring sturdy shoes and gardening gloves!
Forests grow by themselves, they create their own microclimate, in which they can thrive. However, for thousands of years, humans have created “cultural landscapes” that influenced the way forests live, grow, function, and appear. From light forests which were held in common, to dense “hunting forests” of the nobility, to forest monocultures of capitalism, every social group projects their interests onto the forests. We will try to investigate what this relationship means for our times of ecological and social crisis, where forests and human communities face similar threats of global warming, commodification, and extractivism.
We want to learn together with and about forests, their potential for biodiversity, mitigating extreme weather events, the interests and subjectivity of trees, how we relate (individually and collectively) to these ecosystems, and many other things. We will also build infrastructure for reforestation in the city, and start “building” tiny, fast-growing, biodiverse forests that act as carbon sink.
A gardener by training, Johannes Wiener works at the intersection of ecology, art, social justice, agriculture, and architecture. Mixing practical, craft, cooperative, animist and theoretical approaches, he seeks to develop new approaches to fundamental questions of ecological and social crisis. He is founder of the association agri_culture. www.agri-culture.art, instagram.com/agri_cultural_worker/
BUILDING FOREST TOGETHER III
Saturday November 11: Planting trees
We will learn about ecosystem succession, the needs of different tree species, and how climate change is affecting forests. We will plant a small, biodiverse forest together.
BUILDING FOREST TOGETHER II
Saturday November 4: Building infrastructure for reforestation
We will learn about tree propagation, how and when to plant trees and what is needed to nurture young trees. We will work on a place to propagate trees, move young trees into pots, and sow.
PROJECT: BUILDING FOREST TOGETHER I
Saturday October 21: Making biochar for Terra Preta
We learned about biochar that fixes carbon in the soil for thousands of years, while at the same time improving the water-holding capacity and structure. We pyrolyzed organic matter to make biochar and mixed it with compost to prepare the soil to help the growth of the young forest.
THINK WE MUST
reading group #1
hosted by garden group & compost group
text HOW THINGS HOLD. A DIAGRAM OF COORDINATION IN A SATOYAMA FOREST (by Elaine Gan & Anna Tsing, in: Microhabitable, edited by Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiuisti)
language text is english, we speak english and german
with Andrea Lumplecker, compost group
date+time Friday October 20, 2–4 pm
location Studio der Klasse für Alle Heiligenkreuzerhof
In preparation for Building Forest Together, but also to find new perspectives for working in the group, we read together the text by Anna Tsing and Elaine Gan: The two describe and draw about coordination, assemblage, and diagrams as concepts and modes of access for working and living together now and in the future. The text (see link above) may or may not be read in preparation. The reading group is always equal parts reading aloud, talking about what is read, and associating in the group.
SNOW FOOD & CLIMATE POLITICS I
planting
with Angelika Palme, Ingrid Greisenegger (City Farm)
date+time date Thursday October 5, 1–3pm
location City Farm near Augarten, meeting point at the entrance
NIGHT GARDENING
owl, bat, moth
date Saturday October 7, 2023, 8 pm
location around Zukunftshof
together with Social Design, Urbanize! and Sophia Kimmig (Berlin)
We strengthened ourselves at the Angewandte (a soup was served by Klasse für Alle) and set off through the falling night to Rothneusiedl. There we explored the “Garten für Alle”, experienced who forms a symbiosis with whom here. We met nocturnal beings of different species and experienced a public, communal space between “nature” and “culture” that holds essential possibilities for future survival. We experienced a nocturnal city, penetrating into a cosmos used by city dwellers, whom we can only encounter with heightened attention and due respect. Those who looked more closely recognized the night as an urban open space in which moths, wild flowers and animals have developed their own special survival strategies. In cooperation with Social Design, Johannes Wiener and Sophia Kimmig who led us to Zukunftshof. We enjoyed a wonderful reading from her book LEBENDIGE NACHT in the dark barn at Zukunftshof at the end of our tour.
Sophia Kimmig holds a PhD in wildlife biology and researches, among other things, how wild animals adapt to changing habitat conditions and how humans and wild animals can coexist – most recently at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research using the Berlin fox and its adaptation to urban life and at Freie Univsersität Berlin using the example of the raccoon. She is engaged in environmental education and knowledge transfer: in lectures, media work, with her books and nature illustrations, she pursues the goal of bringing people closer to the diversity and value of nature and creating acceptance for nature and species conservation. Sophia Kimmig lives in Berlin.
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SATURDAYS FOR GARDENING
permaculture course
study year 2022/23
with Johannes Wiener
Location Am Zukunftshof, Rosiwalgasse 39, 1100 Vienna
Dates Saturdays, 11 am–3 pm
Saturdays for gardening teaches basic practical skills and basic theoretical knowledge about gardening. Depending on the weather and the time of year, there are always about 3 hours of practical work in garden and on field.
The goal is to learn how to plan and create beds that are part of the cultural center at Zukunftshof. Particular attention is paid to herbs, which have both a high ecological value, but also a culinary or medicinal benefit for humans. The additional ecological value of gardens as habitats for countless creatures with whom we share them is a central aspect of Saturdays for Gardening. We look at how it is possible to create havens for biodiversity even in small spaces. We work together to plant, compost, replant, build bed borders and wildlife refuges.
On a theoretical level (about 1 hour), we explore soil structure, soil health, its potential as a carbon sink (“carbon sink”) and water storage, erosion prevention, water and nutrient cycling, landscape science, different ecosystems, basic aspects of botany, and much more. We learn together about the social role of gardens, their historical development, cultural and geographical imprint, and address the importance of access to land, healthy ecosystems, food sovereignty, and urban agriculture.
Saturday May 6, 2023
SATURDAYS FOR GARDENING #14
working in our “Lehrgarten”: companion planting, mulching
Saturday March 25, 2023
SATURDAYS FOR GARDENING #11
preparing another bed by using cardboard to fight the quitch grass
Saturday March 18
SATURDAYS FOR GARDENING #10
plant theory, planting rhubarb, seeding dyer’s chamomille and trifolium
Saturday March 11, 2023
SATURDAYS FOR GARDENING #9
soil preparation and “reclamation”
Saturday January 14, 2023
SATURDAYS FOR GARDENING #8
making coal for terra preta
Samstag 26. November 2022, 11–14 Uhr
SATURDAYS FOR GARDENING #5
Staudenkunde; Blumenzwiebeln bestimmen und legen
Samstag 5. November 2022, 11–14 Uhr
SATURDAYS FOR GARDENING #3
planting fruit trees
Samstag 5. November 2022, 11–14 Uhr
SATURDAYS FOR GARDENING #1
basics: ethymologies, soil, nutrients, climate and more
