Join this online gathering of technical managers, workshop facilitators, educators, researchers, and artists who are actively working with gardens as sites for learning, production, and experimentation. Together, we will exchange practical knowledge, share organisational strategies, and discuss the technical, material and pedagogical challenges of working with living systems.

Organised by the ELIA's ETHO Core Group and Collective Compos(t)ing, the session frames gardening as a future-making practice within higher arts education and beyond.

With the world irreversibly impacted by human actions, resulting in climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, there is a strong sense of urgency to adapt and to learn how to better collaborate with non-human life forms in order to protect and regenerate our shared environment. Gardening may seem modest in scale, yet it offers a radical, hands-on approach to reimagining production processes, material cycles, and educational infrastructures. Increasingly, art schools are integrating gardens into their technical ecosystems —…