Urška Jurman at Summer School as School 2021
Thursday, August 12, 2021, 20:00
Venue: Boxing Club
Urška Jurman: Garden as a Metaphor of Coexistence
Deriving from the Beyond a Construction Site, a community-based garden intervention in a dormant building site in Ljubljana, Urška Jurman will talk about her experiences with a community garden as a space of coexistence and building relations – between diverse participants, between a community space and the city as well as between people and other living species.
Since 2010 initiators and participants of the Beyond a Construction Site have been transforming a long-fenced-off plot of land in Ljubljana into a community space intended for urban gardens, socializing, education, and culture. The project examines and shows the potential of degraded urban areas and the possibility of their receiving new value through community-based interventions. Parallel to this the project enhances and promotes possibilities for urban gardening and green city spaces as well as more active inclusion of inhabitants in decision making about the planning, development, and management of the city spaces.
More: https://onkrajgradbisca.wordpress.com/
Biography
Graduated at art history and sociology of culture from the Faculty of Arts, at the University of Ljubljana. She works as a curator, facilitator, editor, and art writer in the field of contemporary art and spatial culture. Since 2013 she is a programme manager of Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory. She is a co-founder of Kud Obrat with which she co-authored a number of spatial interventions in Ljubljana, among which is also the community garden Beyond a Construction Site. Among others she is a co-author of Ready 2 Change project (with Polonca Lovšin, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, 2004) and co-editor of Ready 2 Change reader (with Polonca Lovšin, 2005), curator of the exhibition by Sanja Iveković Public Works and editor of its catalogue (P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, 2006), co-editor of the thematic issue of the ab magazine about participation in architecture and urban planning (with Apolonija Šušteršič, 2011), and co-editor of the architecture ≠ art reader (with Vid Zabel, 2017).