Meeting Gardens. Practicing the rural through art and care for sustainable and inclusive perspectives. 2025
2025, Vicenza
Meeting Gardens. Practicing the rural through art and care for sustainable and inclusive perspectives, now in its third edition, it has established itself as a hybrid annual project which, basing its research and practices on non-formal approaches, aims to collectively imagine sustainable and inclusive alternatives for living and acting in and with the territory through active and reciprocal exchange with local rural communities and those on the margins.
Meeting gardens alternative program, is an initiative part of Hypervillage Capacity Building for Cultural Operators to Manage the Digital Transition – TOCC, funded by the European Union. It welcomes a community of participants with whom to engage in discussions and share ideas, experimenting with practices in gardens, vegetable gardens and agricultural settings, starting from the theme of waste, explored and investigated in its broadest and most intertwined possibilities.
Together, we cultivate and share skills, abilities and knowledge in contact with the earth and the languages of art, embracing mutualistic and reciprocal perspectives, to make ourselves active and responsible members of human and non-human communities.
In September, the Meeting Gardens Festival takes shape. Scrabula is a travelling exhibition for the city of Vicenza, with the aim of connecting cultivation and cultural practices between the city's vegetable gardens and gardens and bringing different communities closer to new ways of creating a world.
Meeting Gardens Festival. Scrabula is a project by Bucce Studio and ife collective, sponsored by the City of Vicenza and supported by the City of Vicenza, the Giuseppe Roi Foundation and the Monte di Pietà Foundation.
Discover Meeting Gardens Festival. Scrabula here.
Meeting Gardens alternative program e Meeting Gradens Festival. Scrabula guests: Laura Rositani, Lisa Mazza, Giordana Mascarello, Francesca Migone, Federica Timeto, Giulia Deganello, Giada Fracasso, Gabriele Sha, Emma Vezzaro, Sveva Conte, Silvia Muffolini, Lu Longoni/Lucyfero, Dj Martino, MoreDauda, Clara Reghellin, Margherita Citi, Giulia Gaffo, Caroline Moccia, Enzo e Barbara, Andrea Rosset, AConnection. Meeting Gardens network includes: 100 orti, Apicoltura La Girosa, Azienda Agricola Lisiera, Biblioteca La Vigna, Bosco di Cà Alte and Lanerossi, Bosco e Cascina Carpaneda/Comunità Vicentina per l'Agroecologia, Casa di Cultura Popolare, Caracol Olol Jackson, Ceramic Pavillion/Le Nove Hotel, Cooperativa Insieme, Corte Bertesina, Indomiti vini, I frutti di Marta, La Campagnola, Oddkin Flower Farm & Studio, Pan Ti Voglio, Porto Burci, veloCittà, Villa Angaran San Giuseppe, Fondazione Giuseppe Roi and Fondazione Monte di Pietà.
Photo by Giulia Capraro and Giulia Deganello
