A walk to discover the spontaneous plants that inhabit on pavements.By taking place in urban spaces, the project challenges the perceived between city and nature. It shows that the boundaries between rural and urban are fluid, and that amid the concrete hides a nature as alive as that found in wood.

Plants can be used to tackle a number of issues social :

 

Cultivating a collective reflection on the capitalist paradigm

In a society where we learn to value only what costs effort or money, paying attention to wild herbs is a subversive act.
 

Creativity and joyful sobriety

Eating wild plants enriches our diet: learning how to cook them is part of an economy of gesture that aims to limit the waste of

resources to feed ourselves in a simple, healthy and creative way.
 

Transmission and memory

Before kitchen gardens, there were spontaneous plants. Rediscovering them means reconnecting with an ancient knowledge that is still very much alive in some parts of Europe - in Italy, but also in Belgium, where wild garlic is widely harvested in spring!

Working with spontaneous plants is an ancient, traditionally feminine and multifaceted practice, the disappearance of which is deeply linked to the birth of the capitalist system. For me, reviving it is a way of questioning our food system and the perceived boundary between urban and rural.