Plastic Garden

MODUL

Design 

TYP

Film

3D-Scanning

SOURCE

Rooted Resurgence — Reimagining Collections - Workshop by Vanessa Amoah Opoku

What once was refuge morphs before our eyes — an exhibition, a silent testament to dominion. Each leaf, each bloom, a relic of conquest; the garden's beauty, a gallery of past violences. Here, in this supposed haven, every plant stands as evidence of a legacy written in the language of appropriation and transformation. This is no sanctuary; it's a stage where nature's spoils are displayed, a living mosaic of what was uprooted and claimed. As we walk these curated paths, we tread on histories untold, the soil beneath whispering of origins displaced, of freedom curtailed. In the quiet, between the rustle of leaves, the garden speaks — if only we listen.

Garden as ...
- Garden as in Work, Hard Work.
- Garden as in Freedom
- Garden as a retreat -> Garden as an Attack
- Garden as a foodsource
- Garden as a Communitybuilding-tool.
- Garden as a Collection
- Garden as a form of care
- Garden as a form of expression
- Garden as a form of self-preservation
- Garden as a space for gathering
- Garden as a Form of Violence
- Botanical Garden as a Prison / Refugecenter

Botanical garden as a form of opression.

**Violent Garden**
**Artificial Garden**

Nils Niederhauser

n.niederhauser@gmx.ch

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