Creative Garden 2025

🌿 CREATIVE GARDEN 2025

A summer to grow futures, memories, and materials

A new edition of Creative Garden is about to begin: a participatory project that turns the Treehouse garden into a space for exploration, exchange, and creation.
Starting on Saturday, July 19, and continuing throughout the summer, we’ll open the doors of our workshop area, kitchen, and garden for a shared journey of sustainable workshops, hands-on experimentation, and collaborative imagination.

But this year, Creative Garden is also something more: it’s a living studio supporting the creation of my upcoming installation, the Wardrobe of Lost Seasons — an artistic work that will be presented in November during the group exhibition “Temporarily Out of Place” at Treehouse.

🧵 THE “WARDROBE OF LOST SEASONS”

An archive of lost seasons and imagined futures

The Wardrobe of Lost Seasons will be a personal installation — created by me — yet deeply rooted in the community experiences of the garden:
the materials we gather, the techniques we explore, the conversations we share, and the gestures of our hands as we dye, fold, imprint, shape and cook together.

It’s an impossible wardrobe, made for seasons that no longer exist, for climates that are out of sync, for bodies adapting to a shifting world.
The work will be built from handmade paper, flower-printed fabrics, recycled coffee clay sculptures, and fragments of everyday life turned into matter and meaning.

I’ll be working every week in the studio, allowing the installation to grow gradually, in sync with the changes in the garden. Visitors will be welcome to pass by, observe the process, touch the materials, ask questions — or maybe leave behind a thought or a story.

✂️ THE WORKSHOPS

Learning through making, transforming through thinking, sharing through doing

Throughout the summer, Creative Garden will host a series of open, accessible, and sustainable workshops.
They are designed for anyone curious to explore manual techniques and low-impact creative practices.
Each workshop is a space of reflection and transformation — through slowness, texture, and care:

📄 Paper Making
We’ll make handmade paper using natural fibers, recycled scraps, and plants from the garden.

🥕 Food Waste Session + Shared Lunch
We’ll learn how to cook with what we usually throw away: peels, stems, skins, greens. Every scrap still has something to give.

🌺 Ecoprinting
We’ll print directly with nature: leaves, petals and sun-exposed pigments on fabric.

☕ Coffee Clay Experience
We’ll mold poetic objects using recycled coffee grounds and clay.

🔁 Re-Use Lab
We’ll transform discarded plastic, styrofoam, and metal into decorative and sculptural elements.

🎨 Final October Workshop
Participants will be invited to create their own miniature world — a small-scale installation made using the materials and techniques explored during the summer.
This won’t be part of my personal work, but rather a parallel, symbolic and personal gesture to take home or display temporarily.

📍 NOVEMBER EXHIBITION

“TEMPORARILY OUT OF PLACE” @ Treehouse

The Wardrobe of Lost Seasons will be presented for the first time in November 2025 during the group exhibition “Temporarily Out of Place”, hosted at Treehouse NDSM from November 13 to December 7, 2025.
It will be a personal work shaped by a collective summer: a material and emotional archive made of everything we’ve lived, gathered, and transformed together.

💬 FINAL THOUGHTS

Creative Garden is a fertile space, where anything can grow: objects, relationships, questions.
I invite you to join — for a day, a workshop, or just a visit.
Because every gesture, every fragment, every shared material tells something about us — and can find a place in the world we still have to build, together.