Mutual aid and community solidarity are vital in current and future efforts towards social change and humanity’s survival. These group structures are non-hierarchical and allow individuals to have agency in cultivating solutions and relationships according to value.
Guerrilla gardening is one such way to unify communities, their resilience, and to reclaim the urban landscape. With a mobile application on seed saving, composting, native species, and guerrilla gardening as a concept — paired with a seed exchange kiosk and tool lending library, this practice can enable urban agriculture and education at a communal level while simultaneously reclaiming neglected space.
Seed packets will be redesigned for greater clarity and accessibility in understanding and exchange within the kiosk and guerrilla gardens. New materialities will be explored in the fabrication of seed capsules for a potential attribution to a zero waste economy.
Guerrilla Gardens posters for city-wide wheat pasting
Activists have used this method of wheat pasting or “poster bombing” in order to quickly spread their message in a low-risk way. Guerrilla Gardens employs this method to notify community members of the practice while simultaneously serving to tag certain neglected spaces.
Visual cues are drawn from hand drawn scribbles, collaged images, and our logo. Each poster employs a single color from our brand palette in order to emphasize a phrase or concept. Some posters include the tenets of our cause while others simply advertise our name, inviting the viewer to engage with our practice by scanning the QR code for more information or visiting our mobile kiosk.
Guerrilla Gardens Mobile Kiosk: Mobile Solutions for Urban Areas
The Guerrilla Gardens mobile kiosk is replete with free dispensers of native seed varieties, a tool lending library, a seed exchange site, a rain barrel depository, and a hub of education on seed bombs, native species, the role of guerrilla gardening in urban and communal spaces.
As this kiosk moves throughout the city, the resources it holds are accessible to new areas and communities, encouraging the practice of guerrilla gardening in available spaces.
Guerrilla Gardens Mobile Application Walkthrough
Guerrilla Gardens Mobile Application
The Guerrilla Gardens app disseminates education in an ideal form to an intended Gen Z audience. Regardless of the physical location of the user, this app is fully accessible and provides mobile education, a digitized library of seed packets, the current location of the kiosk, a listing of neglected spaces and their attributes, and a multitude of ways to connect with guerrilla gardeners — both local & beyond.
Guerrilla Gardens Seed Packets
Seed packets serve as pocket sized primers on the biography a gardener needs to know in order to successfully cultivate a species. Guerrilla Gardens has 11 seed packets of both native and vegetable species that can be both used in seed exchanges and personally digitized.
Packets can be digitized and expounded upon within the Guerrilla Gardens mobile application, allowing individuals to curate unique information about a species in relationship to their specific location and knowledge.
Guerrilla Gardens Seed Bombs and Postcards: Individual & Communal Engagement
Seed bombs are an accessible introduction into the field and practice of guerrilla gardening. Easy to make with only four ingredients, pre-made seed bombs can be picked up from the Guerrilla Gardens kiosk or made by following instructions from our app or instructional postcard.