Avant-Gardening

Avant-Gardening is an arts and environment project aimed at engaging all sectors of the community with environmental and sustainability issues through art, gardening and food. Young and old alike will come together to unleash their creativity in thought-provoking but fun workshops and activities. Avant-Gardening aims to solicit the community's creative responses to issues such as global warming, recycling and bio-diversity through an ongoing and organically evolving programme of arts which will give a voice to the participants and involve them in cutting-edge arts projects and activities. Avant-Gardening brings fun and creativity into the city's urban green spaces and encourages participants to reconsider the local environment and their interaction with it.

The artists we work with are experienced practitioners of socially-engaged collaborative arts and are selected for both the innovation of their practice and their commitment to broadening access to the arts. 
 

Mobile Porch at Canary Wharf

As part of the London Festival of Architecture, Avant-Gardening joined forces with public works for a three day showcase in Canary Wharf. Passers by, shoppers, commuters and workers were asked to share their gardening tips and stories, to plant a pot plant, to smile for the camera and contribute to our on-site publication Green on the Move.





The Mobile Porch is a mobile mini-architecture designed for roaming the public sphere made by publicworks. This project is a collaboration between public works and Avant-Gardening. For more information please visit the Mobile Porch page


 
Photographs
Mobile Porch at Canary Wharf. 
photo Ben Brannan
The Mobile Porch
photo publicworks