Photo by Suknovic Mladen

Hortus Publicus

Secret Gardens, Tent's Educational Program, CBK Rotterdam 2012.
A series of workshop. 200 soil bricks with sunflower, courgette, pumpkin and beans.

Hortus Publicus is a project in which students, through an educational workshop, learn about different ingredients to produce a perfect soil brick, which will substitute a concrete covering tile into the public space. The soil brick where planted with different vegetable seeds: courgette, pumpkin, sunflower and beans, that after a period of growth inside CBK, decorate and altered the perception and the aesthetics of the public streets in Rotterdam. Besides borrowing a sculpture or painting from CBK, everybody was invited to adopt soil bricks (Humus tile with vegetable seeds) as well to be planted in the public space.

This project was realized with the collaboration of Bureau MEST and with the support of CBK Rotterdam. All images are copyright of the artist.

Photo by Aad Hogendoorn

Photo by Marieke van der Lippe