Anne Diestelkamp
cultural programmer, artistic researcher/ editor and translator
Talks and Workshops
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 final closing event of the weekend was a Gardener’s Assembly which brought together artists, community and activist gardeners alike—those who work with soil and wish to exchange experiences with like-minded practitioners. During the afternoon, we shared stories from a wide range of gardens: nomadic, community, artist-run, urban, activist, rooftop, and more.
Participants were invited to bring something – a tool, a seed, a leave – and a handful of soil from their garden as a starting point for storytelling.
During the course of the gardener’s assembly, artist-educator Dana Wait facilitated a chromatography workshop to make soil portraits of different gardens across Amsterdam – a scientific process used to assess the health of soil samples.
Together, we discussed the challenges, practices, and experiences of gardening—as both community work and artistic research—and concluded with a circle discussion to explore the future of this emerging gardening network.