”Healthy Places”

Greenfeel took part in a co-design model for green and social regeneration of community places , partnership that was shortlisted amongst the 2022 NEB Prizes finalists. This project was conceived together with West University, Studio Peisaj, TerraPia, and Community Foundation Timisoara.

https://2022.prizes.new-european-bauhaus.eu/application/healthy-places

GreenFeel has contributed to this project as a peri-urban plot now hosting community gardens, outdoor meeting spaces and a wide range of workshops and activities around gardening, building with natural materials, ecology, education and civic society development. This space had been used for gardening during communist times by families living in blocks of flats, but this usage saw a significant decline over the last 20 years, due to ageing of the gardeners and lifestyle changes in post-communist society. But through this project, the Greenfeel community garden acted as a place for dialogue, experimentation with sustainable principles and local knowledge sharing. Nature-based solutions applied participatively created places that are beautiful through the diversity of needs and aspirations they integrate.

The intervention approach was designed through wide, iterative consultation, while the interventions themselves (participatory workshops, guiding volunteers and community members, commissioned works) adapted in time to the needs, interests and capacity of the various individuals and groups that partook in the transformation.