Anne Diestelkamp
cultural programmer, artistic researcher/ editor and translator
Workshop by artist collective Genomic Gastronomy
As part of FUTURE GARDENING @ SOIL ASSEMBLY
Zone2Source
Amsterdam
2026
For the international Soil Assembly, Alice Smits from Zone2Source and I organized Future Gardening – a weekend event in Zone2Source’s two artist gardens, run by artist collectives de Onkruidenier and Genomic Gastronomy. The peak of the weekend was a Gardener’s Assembly for gardeners and artists who work with gardens across Amsterdam.
The Gardener’s Assembly began with a workshop by the artist collective Genomic Gastronomy in their artist garden, where they explore the technologies and ecologies of human food systems. During the workshop, hosted by Zack Denfield and Cathrine Kramer from the Genomic Gastronomy collective, we harvested and tasted dozens of plants from the Extreme Salad Garden. Using slow observation and custom software, we documented the late-spring edible biodiversity and the garden’s current soil cycles.