1. COMMUNITY GARDENING
AS A SOCIAL INNOVATION
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Urban community gardens of Cologne
Anastasia Agafonova
Raoul Döring
Soyoung Park
Ingrid Walter
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INSIGHTS FROM RESEARCH
Community gardens have different motivations and goals
Very different scales and operating models
Low level of publicity and awareness by citizens
Different practice of knowledge sharing and educational program
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INSIGHTS FROM RESEARCH
Today's educational and promotional strategies of
existing community gardens are too limited physically
(being located in a specific area and space) as well
as they don't target a wide and non active audience.
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5. *netgarden
A MOBILE EDUCATION PROJECT

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Residents realise how grey and unfriendly
their neighbourhood is, they would like to do
something about it

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They find a webpage where you can reserve
a date for the gardening workshop
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On that day the guy from *netgarden comes
to their neighbourhood to net*garden comes
On that day the guy from give a workshop.

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He gives an introduction of the basics of
planting, shows the techniques of doing it
and explains do's and don'ts

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At the end of the workshop he gives them a
toolkit, consisting of all the things a
beginner gardener needs

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On that day the guy from net*garden comes
to their neighbourhood to give a workshop

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Inside the toolkit they find a package with
few types of seeds, an easy-to-build box, a
pair of gloves, informative brochure etc.

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They are getting more and more engaged and
inspired by gardening and getting connected
with other garden initiatives online

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THANK YOU
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