On the Way to the City of the Future
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| Admission: free of charge |
| Ticket: The event is free of charge. You only need a ticket. |
| Doors open: 17:30 |
| Which languages: German |
| Venue: 1st Floor, Berlin Exhibition, 1st floor, Hall 5 Berlin Room |
Urban gardens are now an integral part of city life. From early pioneering projects, a nationwide network of more than 1,000 community gardens has emerged over the past two decades. Today, they are seen as urban laboratories for ecological, inclusive and participatory forms of neighbourhood-building.
From the very beginning, women⁺ have played an important role in the gardening movement. The openness of these cultural and natural spaces makes urban gardens places where people can experience empowerment. They offer ideal conditions for putting feminist ideas into practice and bringing together diverse perspectives.
On International Women⁺’s Day, BERLIN GLOBAL invites you to a talk by the sociologist Christa Müller. As co-editor of the book “Unterwegs in die Stadt der Zukunft. Urbane Gärten als Orte der Transformation”, she explores different dimensions of urban gardening and the role of such projects in shaping a caring, solidarity-centred, multispecies-friendly city.
Afterwards, Anuscheh Amir-Khalili (activist and Open Space curator), Christa Müller and Elianna Renner (artist and activist) will discuss community gardens as spaces of feminist solidarity. The discussion will be moderated by political scientist Yannick Müller.
An event as part of the Open Space exhibition “Dara Tûyê – درخت توت – The Mulberry Tree“.
Participants
Dr. Christa Müller is a sociologist and heads anstiftung, a non-profit foundation in Munich. She has been researching and publishing for many years on DIY movements, with a focus on urban gardening.
Anuscheh Amir-Khalili is an activist, anthropologist and curator of the Open Space. She was born in Iran to a German mother and an Iranian father. In 2015, she founded the organisation Flamingo, a network for refugee women⁺ and children. Since 2019, Flamingo has run the transcultural community garden “Hevrîn Xelef” in Berlin-Neukölln. For her work, she received the Citizen Award from the organisation Global Citizen in 2022. Since that same year, she has been a research associate at anstiftung and a point of contact for post-migrant communities, particularly in the field of community gardening.
Elianna Renner is an artist based in Bremen who works at the intersections of biography and history. She has a particular interest in the stories of women, of marginalised individuals, outsiders, the persecuted and those who have fallen into oblivion. Her works have been shown in numerous exhibitions both in Germany and abroad.
In addition to her artistic practice, she is the initiator of the Köfte Kosher Memorial Pavilion in Bremen and a founding member of Marwa-El-Sherbini Platz e. V., an organisation committed to combating right-wing violence, racism and antisemitism.
Yannick Müller is a moderator and political scientist based in Berlin. He facilitates local and international dialogues between civil society, business, academia and politics, creating open spaces for structured exchange on justice, participation and transformation.
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