Garden Department
Humans have been using plants to beautify the workspace and boost productivity. Apparently, non-stop work seems a bit more humane when accompanied by a tired green organism.
The bull, a symbol of violence and power, in Romania is beautified with flowers when the agriculture season starts, contrasting the cyclic work of the land with the frantic urban buzz.
Are we beautifying labor to erase its effort? Are we deploying plants to supervise our productivity?
Members of an office brought seeds from their countries to Kassel and talked about our (lack of) gardening practices, questioning the translocation of seeds in our societies today.