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Haedicke, Susan C. (2017) Aroma-Home’s edible stories : an urban community garden performs. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems . pp. 1-6. doi:10.1017/S174217051700028X
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S174217051700028X
Abstract
Aroma-Home, an artist-initiated community garden in Villetaneuse, just outside Paris, France, originated as a way to poeticize damaged urban locations by creating small communally-created pockets of unexpected natural beauty. In 2013, Sarah Harper of Friches Théâtre Urbain joined forces with local inhabitants to reclaim public spaces marred by construction and neglect. Together, they began to alter the urban landscape with whimsical plant-based interventions that sprouted up behind construction fences. This guerrilla gardening soon led to the sowing of a community garden that wove together food-growing, story-telling and place-making and fashioned its particular identity through cultural practices around growing, preparing and sharing food of the multi-ethnic participants. The horticultural-culinary conversations became inextricably connected to gardening activities: edible stories involving food memories and horticultural skills that nourished those who prepared and consumed them. This ‘From the Field’ paper looks at how the community garden/art-making processes of Aroma-Home transformed a bleak construction site into a mini-urban agricultural ‘commons’ where imagining, planting and harvesting the garden and its edible stories were all shared.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races S Agriculture > SB Plant culture |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Community gardens -- Villetaneuse (France), Urban renewal -- Citizen participation, Friches Théâtre Urbain | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1742-1705 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 30 May 2017 | ||||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 1-6 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S174217051700028X | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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