La huerta: ecosistema narrativo. escucha, prácticas artísticas y agroecología

Abstract

The urban garden is a living classroom and a space of encounter where experiences, stories, and memories converge. From research-creation, this project delves into the connection between artistic and agroecological practices, deeply interconnected dimensions. To understand this encounter, it begins with a vital experience: volunteering in the Agrubachué urban agroecological garden, understood as an action that opens the door to other ways of relating to the city. Through the acts of sowing, composting, and sharing, listening manifests as the primary process that reveals a Narrative Ecosystem where collective stories and memories emerge. Artistic practices such as writing, the artist’s book, photography, video, and installation enable resonance with the memories of the territory and give rise to projects such as El Libro Huerta: Cosechar con los Ojos, La Bici Itinerante Bachué, El Libro Compostero, and Memoria Fértil, which engage in dialogue with the past, present, and future of this ecosystem, which itself contains the transformations of the garden and of those who inhabit it, along with their childhood memories and experiences; these devices unfold as forms of ecopedagogy and sensitive records, which at the same time allow the activation and materialization of other ways of being and doing in Bogotá, through community dialogue, the act of gardening, narrating, and imagining together.