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Visit People's Park Plinth

Ayandeh Garden (2016 – ongoing)

They Are Here

Ayandeh is a Farsi word meaning ‘future’, suggested by poet and refugee Pegah. Ayandeh Garden is a community gardening project initiated by collective practice They Are Here & Florina Tudose, with young adult refugees and asylum seekers in 2016. Beyond the tangible gardening activity, the project seeks to create a space that embraces, maintains and produces a diverse set of social relationships between people with different residency status.  It is also the nexus of a cooperative inquiry between gardeners, carpenters, architects, artists, activists, landscape designers and ecologists.

Seeds From Elsewhere

The space is also a test site for new public works. The first of these is Seeds From Elsewhere. The heart of the activity involves working with each refugee and asylum seeker to grow plants from their respective homeland; contributing to a horticultural portrait of the group. From the outset of the process we literally and metaphorically ask ‘What can grow here that’s not from here?’

To get involved contact They Are Here via ayandehgarden [a] theyarehere.net

About They Are Here

They Are Here (f.2006)  is a collaborative practice steered by Helen Walker & Harun Morrison. They are currently based in London and on the River Lea. Their work can be read as a series of context specific scenarios. Resisting rigid hierarchy and foregrounding knowledge exchange they seek to create ephemeral systems and temporary, micro-communities that offer an alternate means of engaging with a situation, history or ideology. Institutions they have developed or presented work include: CCA Glasgow, Grand Union, Konsthall C, Southbank Centre, Furtherfield, Studio Voltaire, STUK and Tate Modern. www.theyarehere.net

Supported by Arts Council England, Big Lottery Fund and individual donations.