Montaña Verde

In the context of the public exhibition ‘Experience Traps’ (2018), Antwerp’s Middelheim Museum and Green Department invited the Spanish architecture collective Recetas Urbanas to develop a co-created intervention on the De Coninck Square. Recetas Urbanas worked together with citizen initiatives, volunteers and activists in order to build Montaña Verde (‘Green Mountain’). Under its roof, the wooden arch was intended as a space for workshops and social encounter. On its roof, the idea was to constitute a laboratory for the cultivation of plants and vegetables, the governance of which would later be transferred to local residents.

Articles about this case study:

Louis Volont (2021). Montaña Verde, Antwerp: Spatializing the Commons in the City-as-Oeuvre. In: Shapehifting: The Cultural Production of Common Space (PhD Thesis). Universitas Antwerpen.

Hanka Otte and Pascal Gielen (2020). Commoning art as political companion. On the issue of participatory democracy. In: F. Dupin-Meynard & E. Négrier (eds.) Cultural Policies in Europe: A Participatory Turn? Editions de l’Attribut. p. 141-154. (The publication is available here)

Hanka Otte (2020). De steile helling van Montaña Verde. Participatiekunst gewrongen tussen de openbare en civiele ruimte. Forum+, vol. 27, nr. 2. (The article is available here)