Shadow Garden
Every Wednesday and when weather conditions permit, members of artist collective the Onkruidenier open the gate of the Shadow Garden, the former Belgian monastery garden of the 1972 Floriade. Leave your preconceived ideas about gardening behind and open yourself up to a new perspective on a garden. Follow the research and check opening hours on Instagram.
SOILS – Van Abbemuseum
After two editions in 2020 and 2021, Forever Summer is back at the Van Abbemuseum and part of group exhibition Soils. This exhibition explores a renewed connection with our soil.
Color Wheel Tour – Dutch Design Week
What happens when an art project comprising plants and people, rather than objects, becomes part of a museum collection? During Dutch Design Week, the research and insights from the participatory project Forever Summer will be turned into an interactive four-station "color wheel tour" that visitors can fully or partially follow. Like a large number of people, tomatoes are creatures of habit. They thrive under specific conditions they have grown accustomed to. So how do different tomato varieties respond to rapid changing growth conditions when climate, weather and season are becoming less and less predictable? By placing sowing, growing, caring and harvesting tomatoes at the core of this participatory project, Forever Summers aims to find new (design) strategies to tune and attune ourselves to the changes of our daily living environment.