Nils Norman Radical Gardening Trailer

Nils Norman The Gerrard Winstanley Radical Gardening Space Reclamation Mobile Field Center and Weather Station (European Chapter)

Concept and design by Nils Norman Built by Doepner / Cummerow // f18, Hamburg 2000 Produced, assisted and cycled by the Galerie für Landschaftskunst Supported and financed by Anne Marie and Sören Mygind

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The Gerrard Winstanley Radical Gardening Space Reclamation Mobile Field Center and Weather Station (European Chapter) is a specially designed bicycle trailer that when in transit is a compact, weatherproof, lockable unit, roadworthy and user-friendly. It has been designed to travel between community gardens / allotments, town fairs, protest camps, and schools, where it is opened up and made ready for action. When stationary the bike trailer opened up reveals a small xerox machine, a library of books available for xeroxing, a weather station and a small working desk. Ontop is a solar panel which collects solar energy whenever the sun is out. The library consists of a unique collection of books, some quite rare, on experimental urban gardening / farming, horticulture, weather, D. I. Y. (do it yourself) culture, alternative city design and city gentrification. The bike is named after Gerrard Winstanley, the leader and Spokeperson for “the Diggers”, a group of 17th century indigent peasants who tried to defy the enclosure of common land by private interests; occupying it in en masse, digging it up, cultivating it for food and squatting. Nils Norman

Left: First exhibition and starting point for the voyage: Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, January 15 - February 5, 2000.
Right: At Cosima von Bonin's "The Cousins", Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2000. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn

Left: Visiting Dan Peterman's & Galerie für Landschaftskunst's "Extended Falster Video/Greenhouse", Campus of the University of Lüneburg, 2000.
Right: Passing by the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, 2000.

Left: Visiting Dan Peterman's "Business Miles", Stichter See / Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, 2000.
Right: In the exhibition "out of space - Schnitt Ausstellungsraum im Kölnischen Kunstverein", Cologne, 2000. Photo: Kölnischer Kunstverein.

Left: Tate Britain, London, 2004. Photo: Tate Britain
Right: At the exhibition and symposium KÜHLLABOR, Krakauebene, 2012. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler

At the Yamuna-Elbe-Project, Hamburg, 2011.

Museum Het Domein Sittard, in Nils Norman's exhibition "Life in the Projects and the Proposals", 2016


Im LESERAUM des Heidelberger Kunstvereins (konzipiert und arrangiert von Ursula Schöndeling), 2017

A video by Florian Hüttner, Anna Gudjónsdòttir, and Nils Norman: The Gerrard Winstanley Radical Gardening Space Reclamation Mobile Field Center and Weather Station (European Chapter) For more information see GFLK videos

LIST OF BOOKS

Abu-Lughod, Janet L.: From Urban Village to East Village
Arnold, Nick: Vicious Veg
Ashworth, Suzanne: Seed to Seed
Backer, Harry: Growing Fruit *
Beecher, Jonathan and Bienvenu, Richard: The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier
Bell, Graham: The Permaculature Garden
Benson, Ragnar: David’s Tool Kit: A Citizen’s Guide to Taking Out Big Brother’s Heavy Weapons *
Biehl, Janet: The Politics Of Social Ecology
Booth, Stephen: City-Death
Boroor, Donald J. and White, Richard E.: Insects
Braine, Bob: Two Waters
Brass, Elaine and Poklewski Koziell, Sophie: Gathering Force (The Big Issue) *
Brickell, Christopher: The Royal Horticultural Society Pruning *
Brower, Michael: Cool energy
Bunkter, Sarah: Diggers & Dreamers
Callenbach, Ernest: Ecotopia *
Capon, Brian: Botany for Gardeners *
Carey, John (edit.): The Faber Books of UTOPIAS *
Carlsson, Chris: Critical Mass *
Cherfas, Jeremy and Fanton, Michael & Jude: The Seed Savers’ Handbook *
Coates, Chris: Utopia Britannica (volume I) *
Cole, Nancy and Skerrett, P.J.: Renewables Are Ready -People Creating Renewable Energy Solutions *
Coleman, Eliot: Four-Season Harvest
Coover, Virignia: Resource Manual For A Living Revolution
Crouch, David and Ward, Colin: The Allotment *
Davis, Mike: City of Quartz
Day, Martyn: Environmental Action
De Geus, Marius: Ecological Utopias *
DeKorne, James B.: The Hydroponic Hot House
Dennis, Ron, Smith, Alan, Low-Cost Load-Carrying Devices *
Deutsche, Rosalyn: Evictions *
Dion, Mark & Rockman, Alexis: Concrete Jungle
Dobson, Ross V.G.: Bringing the Economy Home from the Market *
Douglas, J. Sholto & Hart, Robert A. de J.: Forest Farming *
Doyle, Timothy and McEachern, Doug: Environment and Politics
Edgerton, William: Memoirs of Peasant Tolstoyans in Soviet Russia
Engels, Friedrich: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific *
Engwicht, David: Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
Engwicht, David: Street Reclaiming
Fairlie, Simon: Low Impact Development
Fern, Ken: Plants for A Future. Edible & Useful Plants For a Healthier World *
Fitter, Richard and Alastair, Blamey, Marjorie: Wild Flowers *
Fleming, Marie: The Geography of Freedom *
Foreman, Dave and Haywood, Bill: Ecodefense. A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching *
Fukuoka, Masanobu: The Road Back to Nature *
Fukuoka, Masanobu: The One Straw Revolution *
Ganeri, Anita: Stormy Weather
Gerard, John: Gerard’s Herbal *
Gershuny, Grace: Start With the Soil
Gibbons, Euell: Stalking The Wild Asparagus *
Glick, Wendell: Great short Works of Henry David Thoreau
Godwin, William: The Antichrist Writings of William Godwin – edited by Peter Marshall *
Goldman, Michael: Privatizing Nature
Goldring, Andrew: Permaculture Teacher’s Guide *
Golob, Richard and Brus, Eric: The Almanac of Renewable Energy
Goodman, Percival and Goodman, Paul: Communitas *
Gordon, David: Green Cities
Guattari, Felix: Chaosmosis
Guattari, Felix: Soft Subversions edited by Sylvère Lotringer
Guattari, Felix: The Three Ecologies
Anna Gudjonsdottir, Florian Hüttner, Till Krause, Daniel Maier-Reimer: Helligkeits - Dunkelheitskartierung Düsseldorf *
Guérin, Daniel: No Gods No Masters (Book One) *
Guérin, Daniel: No Gods No Masters (Book Two) *
Guilfin, Guilford: Information Newstreet, February 1996 (Magazin) *
Harris, Dudley: The Illustrated Guide to Hydroponics
Hart, Robert: Forest Gardening. Cultivating an Edible Landscape *
Henderson, Robert K.: The Neighbourhood Forager *
Herwig, Rob: The Pocket Guide To Houseplants. Complete Care for 300 Plants
Hess, Karl: Community Technology
Hodges, Geoff: Backyard Biohazard *
Holtz Kay, Jane: Jane Holtz Kay - Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back
Hooper, Ted: Guide to Bees & Honey *
Jeavons, John: How to Grow More Vegetables *
Jeavons and Cox : The Sustainable Vegetable Garden *
Jenkins, J.C.: The Humanure Handbook *
Johnston, Jacklyn and Newton, John: Building Green *
Kneen, Brewster: Food and the Culture of Biotechnology *
Kourik, Robert: Designing and maintaining Your edible Landscape Naturally
Krause, Till: Durchgänge in der Hamburger Innenstadt
Krieger, Louis C.C.: The Mushroom Handbook
Kropotkin: Kropotkin – the Conquest of Bread and Other Writings, edited by Marshall S. Shatz *
Kropotkin, Peter: Fields, Factories and Workshops Tomorrow *
Lang, Peter: Rebuilding the Local Economy *
Lefebvre, Marcel: The Urban Revolution *
Lerner, Steve: Eco-Pioneers
Lester, Regionald M.: The Observer’s Book Of Weather
Lipset, S. M.: Agrarian Socialism
Lobell, John: The Little Green Book
Loveday, Pete: Russell: the Saga of a Peaceful Man
Loveday, Pete: Russell: the Saga of a Peaceful Man, Part 2
Loveday, Pete: Russel’s Big Strip Stupormarket
Ludlum, David M.: National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather
Mabey, Richard: Food for Free *
Makarenko, A.S.: The Road To Life, 1
Makarenko, A.S.: The Road To Life, 2
Mangold, Tom & Penycate, John: The Tunnels Of Cuchi *
Marier, Donald: Wind Power
McCullagh, James C.: The Soar Greenhouse Book
McDonald, Elvin: The Complete Book of Gardening Under Lights
McKay, George: DiY Culture. Party & Protest in Nineties Britain *
Merrick: Battle for the Trees. Three month of responsible ancestry
Mollison, Bill: Introduction to Permaculture
Mollison, Bill: Permaculture
Mollison, Bill: Permaculture Two
Morrow, Rosemary: Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture
Nader, Ralph: Ecotactics
Nancarrow & Taylor: The Worm Book *
Nimble, Jack B.: The Construction and Operatio of Clandestine Drug Laboratories
Nicholson-Lord, David: The Greening Of The Cities
O’Keefe, John M.: Water Conserving Gardens And Landscapes
Opler, Paul A. and Mallikul, Vichai: Eastern Butterflies
Oss, O.T. & Oeric, O.N.: Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide *
Pacey & Cullis: Rainwater Harvesting *
Papanek, Victor: The Green Imperative *
Pegler, David: Mushrooms and Toadstools *
Pitzer, Donald E. and Elliott, Josephine M.: New Harmony’s First Utopians
Pratt, Simon: The Permaculture Plot *
Purchase, Graham: Anarchism & and Environmental Survival *
Radkau, Joachim: Die Ära der Ökologie. Eine Weltgeschichte.Beck, München 2011 [Contributed by Kühllabor, Graz, 2012] *
Rave On’s, John: SchNEWSround: The Inside Story from the Direct Action Frontline *
Reed, Francis: On Common Ground
Reynolds, Michael: Earthship I
Reynolds, Michael: Earthship II
Reynolds, Ross: Cambridge Guide to the Weather *
Rifkin, Jeremy: Green Lifestyle Handbook
Rifkin, Jeremy: The Hydrogen Economy *
Ridpath, Ian: Stars & Planets
Roelofs, Joan: Greening Cities *
Roseland, Mark: Eco-City
Rosenthal, Ed: Closet Cultivator: Indoor Marijuana Cultivation Made Easy *
Rosenthal, Ed: Hemp Today
Rosler, Martha: If you lived here - Dia Art Foundation No.6
Ross, Andrew: Strange Weather
Rotheray, Graham E. and Rotheray, J. C.: Aphid Predators *
Ruano, Miguel: Ecourbanisimo Ecourbanisim *
Rushforth, Keith and Brazley, Mitchell: Trees *
Sasse, Jörg: Der Stand der Dinge [probably contributed by Kölnischer Kunstverein in 2000] *
Sassen, Saskia: The Global City - New York, London, Tokyo *
Satterthwaite, David: Sustainable Cities *
Schaeffer, John: A Place in the Sun
Schaefer, Vincent J. and Day, John A.: Atmosphere. Clouds, Rain, Snow, Storms
Sculthorpe, Harold: Feedom to Roam
Searle, Denise: Gathering Force
Secunda, Tony and Goodchild, John: Grow Your Own Trees. A Book & Seeds
Seymour, Richard B.: Compost College, Life on a Counter-Culture Commune
Shepard, Odell: The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals
Sherman, Ed: How to build A Bigger and Better Hydroponic Garden
Shatz, Marshall S.: The Essential Works of Anarchism
Simmons, Adelma Grenier: Herbs To Grow Indoors
Smith, Miranda: Backyard Fruits and Berries
Smith, Neil: The New Urban Fromtier
Smith, Neil and Williams, Peter: Gentrification of the City
Soper, John: Bio-Dynamic Gardening
Spirn, Anne Whiston: The Granite Garden. Urban Nature and Human Design
Spiro, Melford E.: Kibbutz. Venture in Utopia
Stephens, David Huw: The Survivor House
Sterry, Paul: Complete British Wildlife Photoguide *
Stout, Ruth: Gardening Without Work
Suspect/Holligan: Ideal Home. Survival Edition
Thoreau, Henry David: Walden – on the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Rinehart Editions)
Todd, Nancy Jack and Todd, John: Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming *
Todd, Nancy Jack and Todd, John: From Eco-Cities to Living Machines *
Tokar, Brian: The Green Alternative
Wackernagel & Rees: Our Ecological Footprint *
Wakefield, Stace: Not For Rent.
Wall, Derek: Earth First! And the Anti-Roads Movement *
Ward, Colin: Cotters and Squatters *
Ward, Colin: A Decade of Anarchy (1961-1970) *
Ward, Colin: Freedom To Go
Ward, Colin: Peter Kropothkin’s. Fields, Factories and Workshops Tomorrow
Ward, Colin: Reflected in Water *
Ward, Colin: Talking Houses
Ward, Colin: Welcomee, Thinner City
Ward, Colin: When we build Again
White, Tony: Road Rage. When the crusties take on the road builders, Mother Nature decides to lend a helping hand
Whitelegg, John: Critical mass
Whiteson, Leon: The Watts Towers of Los Angeles
Wilkes Bubel, Nancy: The Adventurous Gardener
Williams, Raymond: The Country and the City
Wilson, Peter Lamborn and Weinberg, Bill: Avant Gardening
Winstanley, Gerrard: Selected Writings
Zelov, Chris: Design Outlaws on the Ecological Frontier *
Zuylen, Gabrielle van: Paradise on Earth

amorph! 03 summit of micronations > protocols *
Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Growing Fruits
A Blueprint for Survival – the Ecologist *
City Cyclist, July/August 1998 *
City Cyclist, September/Oktober 1998 [1999?] *
2 x City Cyclist, January/February 1999 *
Claremont Road E 11 - A Festival of Resistance, 1994 *
Direct Action & Sabotage – edited by Salvatore Salerno *
Direct Action in British Environmentalism – edited by Seel, Paterson, Doherty *
Do & Die - No. 8 *
Do or Die – issue nine *
Do or Die – voices from earth first! *
Do or Die (voices of the ecological resistance no10) *
Easy Composting
Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers
Foto - Film - Video (hineingelegt: Pressemitteilung über Dan Peterman‘s „Business Miles“) [added to the library by the Kunstverein Springhornhof]
Frontline (Isle of Wight), Issue 2/1995 *
Gathering force diY culture – radical action for those tired of waiting
Grasses, Sedges, Rushes and Ferns – Collins Pocket Guide *
The Humanure Handbook (2nd edition)
Hippycore Krew: Soy, Not Oi!
Hydroponic Food *
Ideal Commonwealths *
Ideal Home *
I spy trees
I spy wild flowers
Just One Lane, Volume 5, No. 2 - March/April 1999
Mushrooms in the Garden *
Peace de Resistance
Permaculture Magazine, Issue No 13/1996
Permaculture Magazine, Issue No 19
Practical Photovoltaics (third edition) – komp *
SchNEWs – survival handbook *
SchNEWs Annual – you are being watched *
SchNEWs, Peace de Résistance, Annual 2003 *
Schquall, Schnews issues 201-201 and the best of Squall Magazine *
Squall No. 12 - Spring 1996, Lively up yourself *
Squall No. 14 - Autumn 1996, All fired up *
Squall No. 16 - Summer 1998, Playing the Joker *
Squatting. The Real Story
Sustainable Transport, Number 8, Winter 1998 *
Sustainable Transport, Number 9, Fall 1998 *
There is an Alternative – edited by Veronica Bennholdt Thomsen, Nicholas Farachas, Claudia von Werlhof *
Transportation Alternatives, Volume 5, No.2, March/April 1999 *
The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening
New left review, 232
Road Raging: Top Tips for Wrecking Roadbuilding

*  =  die im März 2017 (während der Ausstellung im Heidelberger Kunstverein) noch in der Bibliothek vorhandenen Bücher
(Dank an Lucie Strohm und den Heidelberger Kunstverein & Ursula Schöndeling für die Sichtung!)

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