Forschungskolloquium KG: Tending to small life: on biodiversity (loss), seed saving and storytelling in urban gardens – 10.12.2025
Eline Tabak, PhD, University of Oulu, Finnland
Tending to small life: on biodiversity (loss), seed saving and storytelling in urban gardens
Wann: 10.12.2025
Wo: Seminarraum 00.175, Tennenlohe, Wetterkreuz 15
Moderation: Dr. des. Lena Schlegel
What is the connection between biodiversity loss, seed saving, and storytelling? Both practices and imaginaries of saving and sharing seeds in urban contexts are important in preventing plant species loss. Now that urban green spaces are becoming increasingly important in safeguarding biodiversity, their gardens carry the potential to cultivate and grow plant diversity and, with that, a biodiverse future. In this presentation, Eline Tabak explores the potential connections between seed saving and storytelling to prevent biodiversity loss. Seed saving is often associated with food sovereignty and justice, heritage, and community building. And now, with growing awareness of biodiversity loss, both practices and imaginaries of seed saving in urbans gardens can become important ways to resist this loss. In her postdoctoral research, Eline looks at individuals’ reasons to save seeds in their private gardens and allotments in Finland and the Netherlands. She shows that in these individuals’ gardens, too, practices of seed saving and storytelling are connected and thus, storytelling can play a role in preventing — or rather, resisting — further plant and biodiversity loss.
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