Abstract
This article presents the other garden, a practice-based, research-led artistic initiative I launched together with my students at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) in 2021 to create an interdisciplinary, inclusive, and ecological learning space. Motivated by personal experiences of exclusion within institutional frameworks, the project reclaims visibility for marginalized voices—human and non-human alike—through artistic and collaborative practices. It explores how artistic research can intersect with ecology, care, and diversity to rethink academic environments. The garden acts as both metaphor and method, integrating theory and practice, and positioning alternative pedagogies at the heart of social and environmental change.
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