Town is the Garden Chapbooks

Joss Allen (University of Warwick), Caroline Gatt (University of Aberdeen)

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English

Deveron Arts
04 July 2023

Food & society; Agriculture & related industries; Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama); Agriculture & farming; Gardening

"Critical texts, recipes, and poetry from a creative community food-growing project in Scotland.

""Town Is the Garden"" was a three-year creative community food-growing project run by Deveron Projects, a socially engaged arts organization in the northeast of Scotland. The project set out to explore how a rural agricultural town might rethink its relationship to food and food growing in an era of increasing awareness of climate and ecological emergency. Food becomes a lens through which to investigate the dichotomies that have led to the current environmental catastrophes. Through a collective investigation into the processes of learning and sharing skills related to food growing, the project explored how a community can better pay attention to the entanglement of human and nonhuman worlds. This set of six thought-provoking chapbooks captures the diverse creative learning program developed through the project."

Edited by: Joss Allen (University of Warwick), Caroline Gatt (University of Aberdeen)
Imprint: Deveron Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 147mm, Width: 103mm,
ISBN: 9781907115370
ISBN 10: 1907115374
Publication Date: 04 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joss Allen can be found at the edges of the garden, amongst the weeds and compost heaps. He is an artworker and gardener exploring how creative practices can shape earthy politics, community economies and ecological ways of being, in playful, radical, responsive and meaningful ways. Through his work, he likes to engender collaborations across disciplines, peer educate, tell stories and build communities. His work has been influenced by his time as a support worker for adults with autism, a labourer on an organic farm and a refuse collector, among others. He recently co-ordinated a three-year community food growing project, Town is the Garden (2017–20), with Deveron Projects, Huntly, Scotland. Joss currently lives in Helsinki, Finland where he is in the process of establishing a local seed library and pursuing a Ph.D research project on seed saving and story. Caroline Gatt is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Graz and Co-Investigator on the project '(Musical) Improvisation and Ethics' funded by the Austrian Science Fund. She is an anthropologist and performer, and her research interests include collaborative anthropology, environmentalism, laboratory theatre, design anthropology, ontological politics and ethical self-formation. She is author of 'Breathing Beyond Embodiment: Exploring Emergence, Grief and Song in Laboratory Theatre' (2020), and An Ethnography of Global Environmentalism: Becoming Friends of the Earth (2018) and editor of the special issue of Collaborative Anthropologies 'Considering Onto/Epistemology in Collaboration' (2018), and The Voices of the Pages (2017).