Guerrilla Gardening

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Currently, I am hugely interested in and focusing on studying about productive landscapes in urban areas. Along with this interest, I have become aware that there are many people doing fascinating activities for making cities greener. The one of movement is 'Guerrilla Gardening'. Although the popularity of urban food growing is hugely increasing in recent years, there are still many people unable to have their own land.

Guerrilla gardening could be the best option for this people or those who want to make some under-used public spaces valuable. Guerrilla gardening is generally practiced by environmentalists for the purpose of political gardening. They plant vegetables, fruit, and herbs in vacant or abandoned areas of land such as the side of highways, between streets or parking lots and it is not always legal.

There are plenty of different ways to guerilla garden. Some guerrilla gardeners work in secret at night to plant food. Some work more openly together and ask local communities to help them, or just throw little balls of seeds anywhere that plants could potentially grow.

The fundamental objectives of guerrilla gardening are to improve public spaces, rescue lands from misuse or being wasted, and give them a new purpose.

This image is taken from: http://sparklemag.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/guerrilla-gardening/

May this video will help to understand how people do guerrilla gardening :

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Guerrilla Gardening video game sows digital seeds of change

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Can a gardening video game change the world for the better?

While I was researching on Guerrilla Gardening, I found this ambitious game. Interestingly, the game developer was inspired by Guerrilla Gardening and he decided to create a game with that theme to let people know about Guerrilla Gardening. I believe this new attempt is strong enough to encourage people to be inspired and to promote plant their vegetation in real world. In particular young children could be easy to be inspired by this game. This is important point, because in fact the current majority of planting beds and allotment's security problems and vandalism are undertaken by local children. If children understand the green or productive lands, possibly they less want to make trouble. I wanted to think more about how this kind of interesting media will affect promoting urban planting and landscape. Therefore decided to share this article.


In a medium that features an overwhelming focus on war-themed shoot-’em-ups, a video game about social change through gardening is a definite change of pace. And if the duo behind Guerrilla Gardening have their way, it will also inspire players to raise a trowel and start sowing the seeds of revolution themselves.

In development for nearly two years, Guerrilla Gardening features a unique mix of stealth and puzzle gameplay. Your goal is to overthrow an evil dictatorship by inspiring citizens to make a change. To do this, you’ll have to plant flowers around government propaganda to make the citizens happy, while avoiding the ever-vigilant police.

According to artist-designer Miguel Sternberg, the idea came from a blog post about the burgeoning guerrilla gardening movement.
http://this.org/magazine/2010/10/07/guerrilla-gardening-video-game/

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