The website is a growing collection of information on plant life within the city, with focus on a part of inner city Copenhagen called Christianshavn. We made a series of walks with biologists and laymen to investigate and document the plantlife of the area. Read about The White Man's Footprints a plant that followed European colonization and spread to most continents, and about bushes with clouds of etheric oils that can explode when put on fire and in one instance, the story goes, resulted in the burning down of a carport. About the consequences of urban renewal and the limited choices of plants that are used in cities and about all that which spreads by itself. As a part of the investigation soil samples of this part of the city is grown and can be followed online.

The garden was placed in one of the most attractive and central spots of the newly designed harbour front, yet the place is mostly deserted. This comes down to two issues; the area is quite effectively cut off from the city through an unfortunate urban plan, and secondly the status of the space is dubious, you are left in doubt whether this is a public space at all. Through the project we wanted to address the use and functionality of public space, how can we make spaces that are engaging and inclusive?

Read more at: www.planteundersogelser.dk/nyttehave.html

The project was made in relation to the exhibition: City Rumble with new relational and interventionist public art.

Thanks to; Cand. scient. Jette Dahl Møller & Ph.D Knud Ib Christensen;
With help from Hanne H. Jensen og Christina Dreyer, students at the Agricultural University of Copenhagen

Artist Biographies

Marie, Jesper and Nis have been working together for two years on a variety of public projects. They deal with issues of access to/and design of public spaces. They have, among other projects, been working with mobile phones and teenagers in Finland, with 'mobile street-furniture' in Århus Denmark. and have made a communal urban green space in collaboration with residents and homeless people in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, to avoid the privatization of the space.