The Art of Green Maintenance. Future-Making in Urban Gardening

Abstract

Sažetak
Urban gardening plays a major role in how sustainable futures are imagined and envisaged, but the focus on its innovative potential tends to obscure the diverging logics at play. We draw upon ethnographic fieldwork at the community garden Onkraj gradbišča in Ljubljana, which was conceptualized primarily as a social and cultural innovation. Yet, it continuously called for maintenance and care practices in which the organizers and the gardeners had to engage to make it last. We argue that maintenance labor is crucial for sustainable urban future-making practices.

Ključne riječi
urban gardening; socio-nature; innovation; maintenance; future-making; Ljubljana