City green as an archive of time
As part of the CYCLE UP! project, the Goethe-Institut is offering a series of workshops on urban ecology in collaboration with the Haenke Initiative. The first of these workshops focused on the immediate surroundings of the Goethe-Institut.
The Goethe-Institut and the surrounding urban ecosystems - Žofín Island, the riverside, the Old Town - are teeming with biodiversity. This guided walk invites participants to engage in practices of “noticing” and “responsiveness”, exploring the presence of plants, their cultural use and the multi-layered history of the land.
Together, the participants created an evolving herbarium or field plant archive - not as a static collection, but as a living record of environmental change. Plants that we encounter today may have moved on tomorrow; others, like the vines that once grew in Prague, have disappeared. Herbaria become archives of movement, loss, resilience and the constant remodelling of urban ecologies under the pressure of climate, development and time.
The Goethe-Institut and the surrounding urban ecosystems - Žofín Island, the riverside, the Old Town - are teeming with biodiversity. This guided walk invites participants to engage in practices of “noticing” and “responsiveness”, exploring the presence of plants, their cultural use and the multi-layered history of the land.
Together, the participants created an evolving herbarium or field plant archive - not as a static collection, but as a living record of environmental change. Plants that we encounter today may have moved on tomorrow; others, like the vines that once grew in Prague, have disappeared. Herbaria become archives of movement, loss, resilience and the constant remodelling of urban ecologies under the pressure of climate, development and time.