Kepler’s Expedition to the Garden of Planet B. A Nocturnal Roundtable

​When humanity’s disruptive power over the environment was momentarily silenced due to Covid-19, our understanding of the garden – and of gardening – began to shift. It shifted in shape and in size, due to compartimentalization of human activity. It shifted in how we as humans relate to the gardens themselves and to the companion species therein, which we culture and cultivate us.

Gardens have a history when it comes to who they were made for and why: be it for power, for pleasure, for food or for trash – or for the imagination. In the frame of our current shift in understanding around gardens and what happens in them – in and out of our sight and senses – we bring together artists, scientists and others to present their work and research and show us what we may have overlooked about them, but may need to urgently consider.

Kepler’s Exhibition to the Garden of Planet B is a nocturnal program of live experiments and presentations for a limited audience to be held on the site of Waag’s Planet B location at the Amsterdam Science park and its fringes, where the site reaches former unused farmland with a growing biodiversity.