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What sort of data do you think your community would like to own?

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What sort of data do you think your community would like to own?

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Your accent defines you, where you're from, where you've been. Leave us a voice note saying: "this is my accent." Click on the icon with the three dots above, and choose the Audio Recorder option.

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Share how you experience your neighbourhood

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Share how you experience your neighbourhood

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Share your favourite place in your neighbourhood, and tell us why! You can use image, text, video.

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You can describe the weather through text, image and/or video.

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Your answers here will populate the data garden that lives here. Responses are easy to share: if you click the plus button under each column, it'll give you an option to write a little blog post. You can add audio, images, video or just text! Click on the pink button on the right with the three dots to find options for links, images, recordings. We urge you to return to see how the garden has grown with everyone's contributions.

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I would focus on a simple garden, with only features that can be accessible to everyone. I would ensure it is easy for me to maintain and nurture.

I would have resources on ways to navigate through the garden, ways to find one's own meditative spots.

I would ensure a way to keep bigoted content off the site, and constantly work on my ability to weed it out.

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I don't know what my community is, given that I come from a very nuclear, inter-caste family. individually I find myself gravitating towards every culture.

but if I think of myself, I have archived and exported chats with friends online (with their consent). I have created art, taken screenshots, and it has never been seen by anyone but my friend and me.

i would like to hold on to the knowledge we share and produce, bits of practices(our own culture) that we build, our rituals.

they would allow me to look back and understand how I have grown, how we have grown together. how is it that despite not having physicality, we have managed to witness and experience the tender and rich aspects of being human together? (i had a partner online, who i still haven't met ) we've known each other for three years now.

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i experience my neighbourhood by existing in it quietly. i move through it and observe it, meditate in spots where no one else can find me ( tumblr, literature, music and cinema online)

curation, and finding resonating curations have been extremely vital to me. They are like the ball of string that help me find my location in the maze of memories and experiences that is my head.

I love to just browse through tools like scihub, the scihub bots on telegram, 12ft.io, etc. they are reminders that hope in a ruthlessly gatekept world exists.

Channels like @suniyemusic @wordmap on Telegram. Happy places. Meme curations by @adriennemariebrown on instagram, tiktoks by neurodivergent/ queer people, inside jokes that are universal, they make me very happy.

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i live in a quiet city (Pune). The weather here is cold during winters, and monsoons, and unforgivably hot in summers. We have terrible october heat too.

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I would ensure that certain derogatory/abusive words cannot be used. I'd also ask people to be more mindful and kind in their responses.

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Its a brisk, bright day here at NEoN in Dundee - everyone is buddled up in warm clothes, but the sun is keeping everyone smiling.

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can the seeds you plant be always trusted to grow to what you envision? i am not sure - gardens like all organic beings cannot be always controlled or tamed. it requires hard intervention for it to stay true to what you envision. so yes, if the garden is to be for all and safe for all it needs to be watched over by a benevolent god.

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Just like any garden, the options at first are numerous but there is nary a seed in the ground.
But with time, like any labour of love, the ground will soon be fertile with all the people adding their own ideas, flowering over time to give back all that has been put in.
Unlike a regular horticulture practice - in the digital realm we don't need to wait for a season to pass to see the fruits of our labours. The nourishment this garden needs is simply engagement.
I think that is the most exciting part of this - literally the more hands that get involved, the more OUR garden with thrive and grow, and more enjoyment can be had by all - visitors and gardeners alike!

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It would be nice if there was an agreed safety to have conversations but not feel there is, on some level, a need for a winner when it comes to opinions and statements as openness and compassion can be the best way to break down disagreements and misunderstandings

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I would ensure that what is being posted is not offensive and inclusive to all.

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'Private' servers have existed on the internet almost since its inception, and communities have gathered together on discord servers to minecraft servers to find new digital ways of being together and sharing time in a place that feels like theirs, where boundaries and activities are expanded.

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'Private' servers have existed on the internet almost since its inception, and communities have gathered together on discord servers to minecraft servers to find new digital ways of being together and sharing time in a place that feels like theirs, where boundaries and activities are expanded.

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These forms of 'digital commons' could be expanded into new regional or local social medias, which promise to be much cooler if they are virtual rather than simply textual - de-emphasise the word!

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it's a clear bonnie day
a day which stretches and breathes
the horizon a supple spine which relaxes,
easily bears up the sky.

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I love the idea of a feminist data and feminist, ecological servers. Servers are such fertile places for decentralised communities, art and information to be presented. I would love to explore their potential as providing democratic assemblies and locations to discuss ideas, deliberate and also co-create. The question of how much autonomy and freedom users of a server can have is interestingly intrinsic to this project too; what would happen if each user could edit, draw on, and interface with the content in ways otherwise than the specific inputs allowed, as in the garden here? It could be chaos or gravitate toward a more natural order.

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Please share this project if you enjoyed it: it can be found at tinyurl.com/multitudes21 - and do reach out if you'd like to - I'm at p (dot) raymurray (at) gmail.com or @praymurray on Twitter.

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The entire aesthetic of the project reminds me of those fond times playing Zelda and old school SNES and Megadrive games - do you think that form of nostalgia is maybe why the feminist server feels so hopeful and unjaded and why the deep undercurrent of wanting it to succeed is so strong?

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I would make it a space for actions, not for words. Let the visitors plant, care for and nurture to their hearts content. Focus on sharing the experience and its emotional value in an agreed "silence"

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To be honest, I'm not sure what my community is. I don't feel particularly closed in a certain space of people. But I imagine that in today's world, a digital infrastrcture could help keep and nurture relationships we have with other. Have that safer space to interact, exchange and just be with others. I guess that maybe if I had this sort of space, the past two years would have looked quite differently for me.

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I moved to this neighbourhood during the pandemic, so the seclusion atop of work and my social anxiety kept me from really existing with people. I chatted to my neighbour next door a few times. I recognize some people and their pets from my kitchen window when I'm making coffee in the morning. It can be comforting sometimes

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Right now it's cold and windy. November is not really my favourite month. But on my way to the bus stop today, the sun came out for a moment. One tree had all its leaves vibrant yellow, another rich red, the grass was still green. It was nice

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I like the idea of a digital, therefore more accessible, space that centres on care. I can participate in it or even just simply experience it from a (psychical) space I feel safest in. Slow, peaceful, without any particular responsibilities or goals. The only goal seems to be just... moving forward. Growing. It feels calming, which I find very comforting considering I struggle a lot with anxiety.

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I just moved to a new country.. my insides don’t match my outsides.. it’s too cold but there is always heating indoors.. I keep thinking abt the CO2 emissions from malls, cold storages etc .. if this place is so unliveable why is it called the civilised world?

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I have noticed the drop in temperature these past few days, along with the darker mornings and nights. I haven't made the change to wearing thicker layers yet - still living in summer-mode - but I will have to soon.

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Creating and contributing to a community, at the same time being in the comfort of a safe space, whatever it might be for anyone. I believe I work better when I feel comfortable and safe, for me it's in my own home. With a digital infrastructure, I can contribute that best work to a (cyber) space, to share, experience and rework it with others.

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There is an ice cream/candy truck that drives around my neighbourhood almost every evening. It announces itself by playing this cutesy tune, but I think the speaker is a little bit broken, and it comes out all creepy. The way it carries the echo makes it almost unsettling. For the first few weeks after I moved in, I could hear the sound after it got dark, but could never locate the source. With empty street it made everything really eerie. Now that I hear it it's still spooky, but I grew to like it. I think it gives that street some character, maybe even charm.

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What if a little sprout/tree/flower grew out every time someone shared a thought? Would be nice to see a big patch of soil grow into a meadow or a wild garden as the time goes by. Answers to these questions, little notes, thoughts, thank yous, hellos, goodbyes... to look at in the garden, all together in one space. You share something about yourself to plant a seed

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I come from a seaside town on the west coast of Scotland. It's a strange place to be from - most people who know it will visit for a day or two to enjoy the beach. I hated it growing up. There was nothing to do but go on walks, it was hard to meet other people like me and it was too small to navigate without being afraid of bumping into someone I knew.

I got bullied for being different, for being awkward, for not presenting or acting how a girl "should" but online I found many many other people like me. And while I had to shrink myself in my town and in my school so as not to draw unwanted attention, I could blossom online. I was free to experiment, to explore my identity, to speak my mind, to vent, and to build friendships with people who understood me. It was a revelation just to discover that I wasn't alone in my otherness. It was easy to disappear into online spaces like tumblr and to just not bother with the real world.

There were a couple of real-life places in my town that I could escape to though: the woods and the rock pools. Even on a sunny day when the beach is flooded with people, the rock pools are always quiet but beautiful and full of wildlife. While I'm not so afraid to exist in my town anymore, the rock pools will always be a sacred space to me. Where I can go to escape, be present and watch the waves in peace and quiet and unobserved.

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I don't know if this was intentional or coincidence but this world and some of the concepts presented remind me of the guerilla gardening movement. In part because of the re-imagining and redesigning of digital spaces in comparison with how guerilla gardeners redesign and breathe new life into forgotten and unloved spaces as well as the element of reclamation and autonomy of worlds/spaces and the people living beside them. And I've also heard guerilla gardening described as activism for introverts, which I think aligns with this gentle, quiet, introspective space and some of the ideas and writing that it presents. Care, nurturing, reciprocation, heroes without violence and so on.

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Guerrilla gardening is the act of gardening - raising food plants or flowers - on land that the gardeners do not have the legal rights to cultivate, such as abandoned sites, areas that are not being cared for, or private property. It encompasses a diverse range of people and motivations, ranging from gardeners who spill over their legal boundaries to gardeners with a political purpose, who seek to provoke change by using guerrilla gardening as a form of protest or direct action. This practice has implications for land rights and land reform; aiming to promote re-consideration of land ownership in order to assign a new purpose or reclaim land that is perceived to be in neglect or misused. Some gardeners work at night, in relative secrecy,in an effort to make the area more useful or attractive. Some garden during the day for publicity.

Two of the earliest celebrated guerrilla gardeners were Gerrard Winstanley, of the Diggers in Surrey, England (1649), and John "Appleseed" Chapman in Ohio, USA (1801).

The earliest recorded use of the term[citation needed ] guerrilla gardening was by Liz Christy and her Green Guerrilla group in 1973 in the Bowery Houston area of New York. They transformed a derelict private lot into a garden. The space is still cared for by volunteers but now enjoys the protection of the city's parks department.

Guerrilla gardening takes place in many parts of the world-more than thirty countries are documented and evidence can be found online in numerous guerrilla gardening social networking groups and in the Community pages of GuerrillaGardening.org. The term bewildering has been used as a synonym for guerrilla gardening by Australian gardener Bob Crombie.

The International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day, scheduled on the 1st of May of every year, is an annual international event when guerrilla gardeners plant sunflowers in their neighborhoods, typically in public places perceived to be neglected, such as tree pits, flower beds and roadside verges. It has taken place since 2007, and was conceived by guerrilla gardeners in Brussels, (who go by the name of The Brussels Farmers). They declared it Journée Internationale de la Guérilla Tournesol. It has been championed by guerrilla gardeners around the world, notably by GuerrillaGardening.org and participation has grown each year since then. Although sunflower sowing at this time of the year is limited to relatively temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, this day is also marked in other parts of the world by planting plants appropriate to the season.

Guerrilla gardening is prominent in Melbourne where most of the inner northern suburbs have community vegetable gardens; land adjoining rail lines has undergone regeneration of the native vegetation, including nature strips. There are a few minor disputes between guerrilla gardeners in Melbourne, with most falling into one of two groups: those concerned most with native planting and those concerned most with communal food growing. However, people with differing opinions still work together without dispute.

There are small community groups around Australia called "Permablitz" who gather regularly to design and construct suburban vegetable gardens for free, in an effort to educate residents on how to grow their own food and better prepare them if/when food prices become too expensive.

Australian Network 10's show Guerrilla Gardeners featured a team of gardeners who make over areas of council owned property without them knowing.

Kevin Hoffman Walk is a passive, scenic linear trail with significant indigenous vegetation, lush ground covers, flowering native shrubs and trees, that overlook part of the tranquil Hovells Creek in Lara Victoria. Originally inspired and maintained by Kevin Hoffman and his family in the early 1970s and with the support of the then Shire of Corio they commenced working together.

In 1902, the Arbutus corridor was a rail line developed by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), connecting Vancouver harbour to the fishing village of Steveston on the South Arm of the Fraser River. In 1905, the BC Electric Company (BCEC) leased and electrified the line to operate interurban passenger rail service between Vancouver and Richmond. The BCEC passenger service was discontinued in 1952, but CPR freight operations continued infrequently until 2001.

With the end of rail operations, CPR wanted to redevelop the 17 hectare corridor for residential and commercial purposes, but was prevented by the City of Vancouver, who wanted to acquire the area for green space and (potentially) a future light rail transportation line. In 2006, the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed the city's zoning authority to prohibit CPR development, but the final disposition of the area was not resolved until 2016, when the City of Vancouver purchased the land from CPR for $55 million.

In the interim, home owners adjacent to the unused rail line and local community groups had built and maintained numerous gardens and plots on the 9 km route. The homes adjacent to the corridor are large, and they are some of the most expensive properties in the city, with the green space adding to the exclusivity of the properties. In 2014, as negotiations with the city dragged on, CPR began repairing the rail line, clearing the gardens, and preparing to run trains on the line. The city filed an injunction to block the railway from reactivating the line, but that bid was dismissed in B.C. Supreme Court. In 2016, the City finalized acquisition of the land. Terms of the complex purchase agreement included a stipulation that a portion of the corridor must be dedicated for light rail transit use.

This has not entirely ended the conflict over the area. Since acquiring the Arbutus corridor, the city has built a bike and pedestrian trail, and developed an Arbutus Greenway plan, but adjacent home owners have pushed for a return to the previous state. Many would like to leave the area wild and inaccessible which would make the now public area an exclusive green space for the wealthy adjacent home owners. The official Arbutus Greenway plan has divided the 9 km route into 8 different character zones that will include bicycle and pedestrian paths, public spaces, community gardens, plazas, and public art.

Whereas most areas that are subjected to guerrilla gardening are unused or abandoned areas not designated for parkland or green space, this is an exception in that it was initially designed for such a purpose. Originally a maintained parkette in Welland, this small area along the Welland Recreational Waterway fell into disuse and neglect for years. In 2013, a handful of local residents, including visual artists and guerrilla gardeners, reclaimed the space by fully restoring overgrown flower beds, adding outdoor paintings, and overseeing general landscape maintenance. Although this area is officially municipal property, there was initially a question by volunteers as to which local organization was responsible for this parkette's maintenance (whether responsibility fell into hands of Welland Recreational Canal Corporation or City of Welland Parks Department). Volunteers met with representatives of City of Welland, and an unofficial verbal agreement was made, ensuring that although the City of Welland does own the parkette land, volunteers may continue maintenance and gardening in the area. Currently, the area attracts some local artistic, musical, and creative youth. It has also been the setting for a number of small, unorganized or impromptu events, such as art shows.

In 1996, Have på en nat ("Garden in a night") was made by the Danish Økologiske Igangsættere ("Organic starters"). An empty piece of land in the middle of the city at Guldbergsgade in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark, was transformed into a garden in a single night. About 1,000 people took part in the project.

Villi Vyöhyke registered association is Finnish nature conservation focused organisation which was founded in Tampere in 2013. Founders of the association started planting meadow plants to road embankments and wastes in urban environments. Urbanization and structural change of agriculture has made many meadow plants endangered in Finland during 20st and 21st centuries. According to members planting wild plants in city area is in gray area according to Finnish law. City of Tampere has reacted positively to the functioning of the association. Villi Vyöhyke has established over 50 guerilla meadows in city of Tampere. The association operates mainly in Pirkanmaa region.

In 1978 downtown Wellington, New Zealand artist Barry Thomas, in collaboration with Chris Lipscombe, Hugh Walton and others, planted 180 cabbages "on the demolished Duke of Edinburgh/Roxy Theatre site in the centre of Wellington. This cabbage patch, planted in such a way as to spell the word CABBAGE immediately captured the imagination of both the media and the public and engendered a flurry of other activities on the site, culminating in a week-long festival... when the cabbages were ceremonially harvested." While a work of conceptual sculpture, this intervention is also an early example of guerrilla gardening in New Zealand. Thomas' work remained for six months, "astonishingly unvandalised, as a living, breathing sculpture in the heart of the city." Christina Barton writes that in the months that followed, "it captured the hearts and minds of Wellingtonians, who followed the growth of the cabbages, adding their own embellishments to the site, and contributed to the week of festivities (with poetry readings, performances, and the distribution of free coleslaw) that celebrated their harvest", describing the work as "a provocation to the local council and the city's developers". Thomas' documentation of the project was recently purchased by New Zealand's national gallery Te Papa, who described the work as an "important moment in New Zealand's art and social history" with links to the "Occupy movement, urban farming and guerrilla gardening".

Guerrilla gardening in South Korea is organized and carried out by individuals, volunteer groups and Internet communities. Richard Reynolds visited South Korea in August 2012 and spoke to many Korean audiences about guerrilla gardening through TEDxItaewon.

GuerrillaGardening.org was created in October 2004 by Richard Reynolds as a blog of his solo guerrilla gardening outside Perronet House, a council block in London's Elephant and Castle district. At the time, his motivations were simply those of a frustrated gardener looking to beautify the neighborhood, but his website attracted the interest of fellow guerrilla gardeners in London and beyond, as well as the world's media. Reynolds's guerrilla gardening has now reached many pockets of South London, and news of his activity has inspired people around the world to get involved. He also works alongside other troops, some local and some who travel, to participate. He has also guerrilla gardened in Libya, Berlin and Montreal.

Today, GuerrillaGardening.org is still his blog, but it also includes tips, links and thriving community boards where guerrilla gardeners from around the world are finding supportive locals. His book, On Guerrilla Gardening, which describes and discusses activity in 30 different countries, was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in the UK and USA in May 2008, in Germany in 2009, France in 2010 and South Korea in 2012. He regularly speaks on the subject to audiences and, in 2010, launched a campaign focusing specifically on pavements as an opportunity, to 'plant life in your street'.

Leaf Street is an acre of land in Hulme, Manchester, England, that was once an urban street until turfed over by Manchester City Council. Local people, facilitated by Manchester Permaculture Group, took direct action in turning the site into a thriving community garden.

SoCal Guerrilla Gardening

Having developed the Clean, Green, and Glean method of Guerrilla Gardening, Scott Bunnell has been refining guerrilla gardening methods for over 30 years. In 2008, he started the SoCal Guerrilla Gardening Club, adding more drought tolerant gardens, and creating several gardens in Eagle Rock, Pico Rivera, Whittier, Long Beach, Norwalk, Artesia, Venice, Los Angeles County, and the Hollywood and Skid Row areas of Los Angeles. In 2015, SoCal Guerrilla Gardening Club also planted a guerrilla "satellite" garden in Morro Bay with their sister club, the Morro Bay Guerrilla Gardening Club.

People's Park, Berkeley

People's Park in Berkeley, California is now a de facto public park which was formed directly out of a community guerrilla gardening movement during the late 1960s, which took place on land owned by the University of California. The university acquired the land through eminent domain, and the houses on the land were demolished, but the university did not allocate funds to develop the land, and the land was left in a decrepit state.

Eventually, people began to convert the unused land into a park. This led to an embattled history involving community members, the university, university police, Governor Reagan, and the national guard, where a protest and bloody reprisal left one person dead, and hundreds seriously wounded. Parts of the park were destroyed and rebuilt over time, and it has established itself as a permanent part of the city.

Greenaid, Los Angeles

Greenaid is a Los Angeles based organization founded in 2010 by Daniel Phillips and Kim Karlsrud of Common Studio. The organization converts vintage gumball machines to dispense seed balls (a combination of clay, compost, and region-specific seeds). Seed balls are then used for seed bombing, where they are tossed or planted in any area that may benefit from wildflowers. Greenaid partners with business owners, educators and citizens to distribute seedbomb vending machines in various communities worldwide. With region-specific seedbomb mixes, Greenaid aims to integrate and beautify (rather than disrupt) traditionally bland urban areas such as sidewalks and highway medians. In July 2010, Greenaid received $10,398 in funding from the Kickstarter community. This funding will be used to spread the initiative to new locations and support current operations.

Los Angeles Green Grounds, Los Angeles

Designer Ron Finley started growing produce on a strip of parkway lawn, but came into conflict with the city council. He was successful in maintaining this urban market garden and has promoted the idea in a TED talk and appearances at international conferences, such as the Stockholm Food Forum and MAD in Copenhagen.

From the mid-1970s, Adam Purple created and tended a circular garden (shaped like a yin-yang) in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, in an abandoned lot. In 1986, when it was bulldozed by the City of New York, the garden had overtaken many lots and reached a size of 15,000 square feet. The short film "Adam Purple and the Garden of Eden" tells its history.

The Guerrilla Gardeners of Downtown East in York, Pennsylvania began in 2009 as a "compact" or agreement between urban flower pot gardeners and residents of the East Market/Broad Street neighborhood in York City, Pennsylvania. If residents agreed to keep their sidewalks litter free, and only placed trash out for collection the night before scheduled pick-up, guerrilla gardeners would place a garden pot with flowering annuals in the spring and summer, mums in the fall and greenery over the winter months in place of the trash pile. What began with a few homes and apartments quickly spread and, as of 2019, over 40 homes and apartments have agreed to the concept. York City's Guerrilla Gardeners routinely care for street trees, planters and front gardens that have been neglected or fallen into disrepair. Several gardeners focus on litter removal: one ensures street lamps are replaced when they burn out and two focus on seasonal leaf and snow removal. In 2013, Ralph Serpe received the Downtown, Inc. Beautification Award on behalf of the Downtown East Guerrilla Gardeners.

In 2009, as a collaboration between World Naked Bike Ride Seattle, Body Freedom Collaborative, and World Naked Gardening Day, permaculturists Kelda Lorax and Jacob Gabriel launched Gardens Everywhere Bike Parade, a permaculture-themed clothing-optional bike ride that spontaneously showed up at neighborhood gardening locations.

There are health risks to foraging or planting edible plants near toxic waste sites and roads with heavy traffic. Guerrilla gardening is a way to clean up, Certain of plants absorb toxins from the soil without dying and can thus be used as a mechanism to reduce chemical ground pollution.[citation needed ] Plants that grow in areas where there is known chemical contamination or water pollution or that grow on the side of high-traffic roads should not be eaten.[citation needed ]

General:

1. Lamborn, P., and Weinberg, B. (Eds.), (1999), ^ Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle in The City and The World. Autonomedia. ISBN 1-57027-092-9

2. Reynolds, R. (2008), ^ On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook For Gardening Without Boundaries. Bloomsbury ISBN 978-0-7475-9297-6

3. ^ "International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day". Guerrillagardening.org. Archived from the original on 2008-03-23.[unreliable source? ]

4. ^ "Sissiniittyjä kylvävät miehet rakastavat luonnonkukkia: "Tämä on halpa harrastus, kerää vähän siemeniä ja viskoo sinne"" [Men sowing guerrilla meadows love wildflowers: "This is a cheap hobby, collect few seeds and throw them there"] (in Finnish). Yle.

5. ^ "The Artists' Co-op: Barry Thomas; Eva Yuen; Ian Hunter; Ross Boyd; Terry Handscombe; Robin White". Art New Zealand (Winter, 1978).

6. ^ Neil Rowe. "The Artists' Co-op: Barry Thomas; Eva Yuen; Ian Hunter; Ross Boyd; Terry Handscombe; Robin White". Art New Zealand (Winter, 1978).

7. ^ Jenny Harper; Aaron Lister, eds. (2007). Wellington: A City For Sculpture. Victoria University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780864735706.

8. ^ Sarah Farrar. "'Vacant lot of cabbages' documentation enters Te Papa's archives". Te Papa, Museum of New Zealand.

9. ^ TEDx Talks. "Guerrilla gardening -- why people garden without boundaries: Richard Reynolds at TEDxItaewon". Youtube.

10. ^ Marty Kassowitz (2010-11-14). "GreenAid's Guerrilla Gumball-Machine Gardening - Organic Connections". Organicconnectmag.com. Archived from the original on 2011-11-19.

11. ^ "The veggie king of South Central", Los Angeles Register, May 13, 2014, archived from the original on January 12, 2015

12. ^ "A/N Blog . Video> Exhibition Recalls NY′s Lost Garden of Eden". Blog.archpaper.com. 2011-02-15. Archived from the original on 2013-05-29.

13. ^ Karin Westdyk. "The Garden of Eden: An Environmental "Radical Transformation"". Zentences.com.

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Guerrilla gardening is the act of gardening - raising food plants or flowers - on land that the gardeners do not have the legal rights to cultivate, such as abandoned sites, areas that are not being cared for, or private property.

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I think one of the great things about digital spaces is the wealth of information at our fingertips, and the ability to share our knowledge and experiences. Being able to learn from others and their experiences is powerful. And I like the idea of a space that is curated in a way that is informative and empowering without being too dense or overwhelming or cold. I think this space is a great example of that. Being able to read the essays here - on subjects such as intersectionality - it feels like wandering the shelves of a library, with the option to pick up, thumb through and put down books as you please, in your own time. And then having put the book down you can keep wandering and letting that information process and digest, with the distance between that information and the garden giving you the quiet and time you need to let yourself mull things over, then once ready you can add your own thoughts and add to the overall story.

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i think maybe the ownership of a community's digital infrastructure could be its own benefit. in a world where our data is being bought and sold all of the time, it could be meaningful to claim ownership of our information and by extension, ourselves. and if it's something that can live on and grow and evolve for years to come, we've left some kind of mark in the digital world. but hopefully one of growth and creation and love

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I might consider how to create different spaces within the digital garden that care for different needs and different rules for different spaces. For example "quiet zones" without any discussion but with soothing ambient noise and collaborative or optional music, being able to send emojis, "silent zones" to be enjoyed in peace and quiet, more social areas with moderated conversation and discussions, clear signposted rules/manifesto on kindness and compassion and unable to use blacklisted words.

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Maybe also keeping heavier or potentially triggering but important conversations separate or clearly labelled so that those who wish to avoid them can - but the conversations still have a warm and loving place in the world

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Imagine if there were a way for users to contribute pixel art for the garden flowers plants

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I would work to create and maintain a space in which people felt comfortable and able to be themselves. Steps toward this would include an appropriate and comprehensive content warning system in order to facilitate difficult but perhaps necessary conversations (CW/TWs are rooted in empathy, not censorship), and specific areas for certain interests. I also love the idea of a 'quiet zone' that's been mentioned in a few other posts!

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in creating the framework for own digital communities and lives we can craft it to represent and serve us better. we can make something with ourselves and our own principles and needs in mind.

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Except - Data Feminism - 7. Show Your Work

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Except - Data Feminism - 7. Show Your Work

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"InfoMaintainers: the people who work in libraries and archives and in related preservation fields to ensure that the knowledge of the present remains accessible for generations to come. "
Relates to what others have said about holding on to our shared knowledge, practices and experiences. For future communities as well as the present.

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I think the biggest benefit for the community to own its own digital infrastructure will be to have the right of refusal. I do not particularly hark for a romantic 'out of technology' moment but right now, digital infrastructures are provided as the universal methods for all problems and often it puts people in harm's way without taking accountability for it. The ownership would mean that people can choose when and how to deploy those infrastructures - and have the power of reticence: to have and not to exercise the tool because there are other methods that can work better. 

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I think the biggest benefit for the community to own its own digital infrastructure will be to have the right of refusal. I do not particularly hark for a romantic 'out of technology' moment but right now, digital infrastructures are provided as the universal methods for all problems and often it puts people in harm's way without taking accountability for it. The ownership would mean that people can choose when and how to deploy those infrastructures - and have the power of reticence: to have and not to exercise the tool because there are other methods that can work better. 

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The first thing I would have to do is to figure out if the metaphor of the garden works. There is so much curation, weeding, crafting and intentionality in the act of gardening that it doesn't always mean either safety or enjoyment. Gardening is labour with intention and an act of mastering and taming a piece of land for specific purposes. In my long critique of ecosystems as happy collaborative spaces, I have continued to think of looking at the mechanics of these happy spaces and how we might formulate ways and metaphors of giving them the 'space' (conceptual and otherwise) to be more than the intention. 

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The first thing I would have to do is to figure out if the metaphor of the garden works. There is so much curation, weeding, crafting and intentionality in the act of gardening that it doesn't always mean either safety or enjoyment. Gardening is labour with intention and an act of mastering and taming a piece of land for specific purposes. In my long critique of ecosystems as happy collaborative spaces, I have continued to think of looking at the mechanics of these happy spaces and how we might formulate ways and metaphors of giving them the 'space' (conceptual and otherwise) to be more than the intention. 

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So many digital spaces have been forced out of the kindness and curiosity that used to be there in online interactions that I would make these my top most priorities, but still drawing the line at certain hard rules which would be mentioned at the beginning - hate and prejudice is unsafe. But if people want to have conversations to really understand more about a thing (which would possibly have a lot more contentious energy), I'd create a separate "garden" for that energy (and possibly even multiple kinds of energies that I can't envision right now) so that people (flowers!) can still chill out in general. There would be music and art and flowers and enthusiasm!

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When so much of our life is digital, owing the infrastructure ourselves mitigates the threat of corporations or state agencies kind of just... shutting your digital life and connection down. I am not sure how to think about community here but I am visualising the queerfeminist communities I have chosen to be in... community ownership will need to be democratised (or anarchised??) - it is not sufficient for it to just be community control, although that is also a start I guess.

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Thank you for making this so that we get to glimpse into each others' minds and I have seen so many thoughts around digital futures and the way we relate to the digital that I am humming :)

I love the idea of thoughts growing into wildflowers in the garden. If the garden grows too unruly, you could also have different gardeners tending different patches mindfully without threat of overextending themselves and burning out.