Microgardens and Balcony Gardens: Reconfigurations of the Experience of Dwelling

Abstract

This article examines the practices of cultivating microgardens and balcony gardens in terms of corporalities that enable the construction of alternative forms of communication with the habitat. To this end, a series of artistic residencies was carried out within the framework of research-creation, focusing on ancestral practices of planting, pruning, fertilizing, and earthing up, which hybridize with the use of digital devices and web platforms. The partial reflections aim to understand formative actions in which digital materialities incorporate rhythms, temporalities, and ways of doing that reconfigure space and the formation of bodies. This line of inquiry expands the questions surrounding education and contributes to the study of dwelling practices in connection with plant thinking, thus enhancing an ecocritical perspective.