research and exhibition at MIT 2011
April 6th, 2012

Bus Tour: Community Gardens in Boston

April 6, 2012. 09:30a–12:30p
The tour explored the history of community gardens in Boston as sites of resistance against the increasing privatization of resources in the city. Many of Boston’s gardens are the result of grassroots struggles for community land control and food security. As sites of intense cooperation, community gardens can be seen as a training ground for new forms of social solidarity, political self-organization, and ecological consciousness.
The tour of Boston’s community gardens is a component of the thesis project of Scott Berzofsky (SMACT 2012).

http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/topology-of-autonomy

 

 

 

 

 

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November 18th, 2011

1st garden fieldtrip: Berkeley Street

On Friday afternoon, November 18 2011 Julie Kepes Stone took us to South Boston. There is great community garden on Berkeley Street that Julie was actively involved with for more than a decade.

 



 

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November 18th, 2011

1st garden fieldtrip: The Food Project

On the same Friday November 18 2011 we visited several gardens in Roxbury where Julie Kepes Stone was involved in establishing them and contributing with her knowledge and enthusiasm.

 

 

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November 18th, 2011

1st garden fieldtrip: Magazine Street

Magazine Street Community Garden in Roxbury.

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November 18th, 2011

1st garden fieldtrip: Clark Cooper Community Gardens

On Friday November 18 2011 we met Julie Kepes Stone, daughter of the founder of CAVS at MIT, Georgy Kepes, to start our investigation into one category of occupied lands of Boston – community gardens. Julie is a true expert of the field as for many years she has been working on various social programs developing gardening and food cultures in the city among many other activities that she was part of. During years Julie was supervising more than a hundred gardens in greater Boston area.

We started at Clark-Cooper Community Garden at the grounds of the hospital in Roxbury.

  

 

 

 

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