Füß in der Tür #35 Medicinal herb gardens as places of self-empowerment and feminist solidarity
With its working group Urbane Praxis, the Council for the Arts (Rat für die Künste) launched an initiative, which in
With its working group Urbane Praxis, the Council for the Arts (Rat für die Künste) launched an initiative, which in 2021 will show the cooperation and action field “Urbane Praxis” with Berlin-based actors in a network of city-wide campus projects. Using examples of various practices, also beyond Berlin, this podcast discusses perspectives and potentials of urban practice and why now is a good time to talk about it.
Fuß in der Tür #35 Medicinal herb gardens as places of self-empowerment and feminist solidarity
Guests: Anuscheh Amir-Khalili from Flamingo e.V.
Who has the right to shape a place—and who has the right to mourn in it? Urban spaces are never neutral: they reflect whose needs count, whose knowledge is visible, and whose losses are collectively recognized.
Since 2019, Flamingo has been managing the transcultural community garden “Hevrîn Xelef” in Berlin-Neukölln. Named after the Kurdish politician and women’s rights activist Hevrin Khalaf, who was murdered in 2019, it is a place for communal gardening, mourning together, and self-organization—and a place where knowledge about medicinal herbs is shared: by and with women who have brought this knowledge with them from all over the world.
We talk to Anuscheh about how a garden in the middle of the city has become a safe space, a memorial, and a place of feminist resistance.