אילן והגננים ד"ר אפרת הילדסהיים – מגלה את גננות הגרילה
Oct 17, 2022
Efrat Hildesheim is a landscape researcher and urban gardening scholar passionate about guerrilla gardening. She shares the fascinating history behind guerrilla gardening, linking it to 17th-century English movements reclaiming common land. Efrat discusses diverse practices, from symbolic protests to community efforts in creating green spaces. She highlights unique projects like the Pansy Project, and notes the global spread of guerrilla gardening in cities like New York and Berlin. Additionally, she explores how these actions can influence urban planning and foster social change.
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Roots In English Commons And 20th-Century Parks
- Efrat Hildesheim traces guerrilla gardening back to 17th-century English diggers and the enclosure acts that closed commons.
- She describes later examples like People's Park and Liz Christie's New York garden as direct continuations of that practice.
Protest Plantings As Performance
- Efrat recounts small protest plantings like sowing in road holes and temporary installations that served as anarchic political gestures.
- She notes many such projects were performative and often short-lived, photographed as art rather than creating lasting green spaces.
A Spectrum From Reclaiming To Symbolic Acts
- Guerrilla gardening spans a spectrum from direct reclaiming of space to symbolic acts used as political protest or art.
- Efrat argues the movement's diversity makes it both a social-political tactic and an aesthetic practice.
