Community gardens have had different purposes throughout contemporary history, from subsistence tools to places of social struggle against social inequalities and injustice. This was done not only through horticultural practices but also through the promotion of meeting, seminars and events which often implied a cultural or educational objective. Nowadays, although many community gardens are born for less revolutionary reasons, they are still considered powerful spaces of empowerment and community building, while cultural events still play an important role within these projects. The culture promoted within and by community gardens is sometimes implicit or overshadows in research, but it could contribute to social growth in different ways. These considerations lead us to the objective of this thesis, which is to investigate, first of all, the potential that community gardens, if combined with cultural initiatives, possess and then whether unexplored synergies that could improve the effectiveness and impact of community garden projects exist. Specifically, it will be investigated the role that public libraries could have in this context as agents on behalf of public administrations and the possible partnerships that could be established to further promote cultural growth within community gardens.
Gli orti comunitari hanno avuto scopi diversi nel corso della storia contemporanea, da strumenti di sussistenza a luoghi di lotta sociale contro le disuguaglianze e le ingiustizie. Ciò è avvenuto non solo attraverso pratiche orticole, ma anche attraverso la promozione di incontri, seminari ed eventi che spesso implicavano un obiettivo culturale o educativo. Oggi, sebbene molti orti comunitari siano nati per ragioni meno rivoluzionarie, sono ancora considerati potenti spazi di emancipazione e costruzione della comunità, mentre gli eventi culturali giocano ancora un ruolo importante all'interno di questi progetti. La cultura promossa all'interno e dagli orti comunitari è talvolta implicita o messa in ombra nella ricerca, ma potrebbe contribuire alla crescita sociale in diversi modi. Queste considerazioni ci portano all'obiettivo di questa tesi, che è quello di indagare, innanzitutto, il potenziale che gli orti comunitari, se combinati con iniziative culturali, possiedono e poi se esistono sinergie inesplorate che potrebbero migliorare l'efficacia e l'impatto dei progetti di orti comunitari. In particolare, si indagherà sul ruolo che le biblioteche pubbliche potrebbero avere in questo contesto come agenti per conto delle amministrazioni pubbliche e sulle possibili partnership che si potrebbero instaurare per promuovere ulteriormente la crescita culturale all'interno dei giardini comunitari.
Horti-Culture and community gardens: the role of libraries in private and public projects
ZAMPERETTI, MARIA
2023/2024
Abstract
Community gardens have had different purposes throughout contemporary history, from subsistence tools to places of social struggle against social inequalities and injustice. This was done not only through horticultural practices but also through the promotion of meeting, seminars and events which often implied a cultural or educational objective. Nowadays, although many community gardens are born for less revolutionary reasons, they are still considered powerful spaces of empowerment and community building, while cultural events still play an important role within these projects. The culture promoted within and by community gardens is sometimes implicit or overshadows in research, but it could contribute to social growth in different ways. These considerations lead us to the objective of this thesis, which is to investigate, first of all, the potential that community gardens, if combined with cultural initiatives, possess and then whether unexplored synergies that could improve the effectiveness and impact of community garden projects exist. Specifically, it will be investigated the role that public libraries could have in this context as agents on behalf of public administrations and the possible partnerships that could be established to further promote cultural growth within community gardens.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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