Public Space in progress

On the way home from some meetings to possible collaboration with local groups on landscaping public space with productive planting, I happen upon the Westenbergstraat carpet cleaning day. A beautiful appropriation of public space, a close group of neighbours with an open door policy, and an instant group of collaborators for the planting project. In exchange for a community orchard they offered to share their location.

This photograph was minimally posed. This is how I met this neighbourhood. They were out enjoying the sun together and doing the carpets. The samovar had just been put away.
Tolga (14) started the conversation invited me behind the big iron gate to where his mother and the other ladies had done some guerilla gardening. In the mean time I have been collaborating with these neighbours in the design of a community orchard at thi

Debra Solomon