eco-conferencia Praga November 10 – 11 2011
http://yo-yo-yo.org/na-jine-pude-dokumentace/
Utopia of the garden. Urban and rural gardens and today’s green utopias
Could one say that art degenerates as it approaches gardening? (Robert Smithson – A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects, 1968)
The aim of the conference is to look at the changing approaches to the soil, and the subjects of growth and growing in society, culture and art, in urban and rural contexts. At the same time, we try to challenge the simplyfiying concepts of nature and natural, as presented in the arts. It is often in the arts though, where the various influential phantasies concerning nature emerge.
We want to confront artistic approaches with views by ecologists, biologists, eco-activists, economists, non profit organizations and foundations, about subjects like: (city) gardening and agriculture, transformation of city flora and fauna, relationship between urban and rural, philosophies of the garden, sustainability of cities and villages, long-term growth in economics (participatory economics, economical de-growth, natural capitalism etc.).
Artists often comment on the dissolving of the natural, cultural, and technological. Artistic approaches are often used as a political tool in the praxis of transforming the environment. Can aesthetics play a key role in the process. How and for what purposes are the newly emerging green spaces used by artists? To what extend are visions of the cities-as-gardens and its inhabitants in the roles of gardeners, just another utopian phantasy? How do the actual city forms of gardening look like: green spaces with open access (open greens), guerilla gardening, rooftop or vertical gardens, (so called) beautifying alliances. How are the permacultural processes reflected in the city planning? What are the most inspiring models of ecological towns and villages?
Los jardines OKOGarden y Yo–YoGarden de Bélgica y República Checa organizaron en el mes de Noviembre una EcoConferencia que tuvo lugar en Praga. Durante tres días de conferencias y actividades hubo participación de artistas, biólogos, activistas, ONGs, economistas, etc… que confrontaron sus puntos de vista y reflexionaron sobre el concepto de crecimiento en la sociedad actual y sobre los conceptos de naturaleza y natural que nos llegan mediados desde el arte y la ciencia. Muchos de los proyectos presentados son fruto de una hibridación de prácticas artísticas que toman como campo de experimentación los nuevos y emergentes espacios verdes de las ciudades o retoman espacios rurales con diferentes propósitos. ¿Son estos enfoques artísticos otra fantasía utópica o podemos pensar en ellos como una herramienta política en la praxis de la transformación social y ambiental? Una disolución contemporánea de lo natural, cultural y tecnológico, un proyecto en común cuyo interés es construir comunidades, abrir y conectar un jardín global y relacional, establecer un diálogo entre la creación contemporánea, el paisaje, la identidad cultural y el territorio.
