Interkultur Foundation
The Interkultur Foundation is a project of the anstiftung (foundation) . It promotes and coordinates intercultural gardens .
history
It was founded in 2003 by the foundation and aims to contribute to a new understanding of social integration . In doing so, one takes up impulses that emanate from the migrant population for shaping society. The managing director is the sociologist and journalist Christa Müller . As a nationwide service and coordination point for the network of intercultural and urban gardens , which now includes almost 600 projects , the foundation's work focuses on the following four core tasks.
Goals, tasks according to the statutes
She advises on the establishment and further development of gardens and provides experience from other projects. She also evaluates and researches project practice, coordinates a research network and enriches discourses on migration and interculture . The foundation highlights the potential of doing it yourself and taking initiative, especially in the immigration debate, publishes the series “Scripts on Migration and Sustainability” and publishes the results of its research in specialist media. In addition, it organizes the transfer of knowledge in politics and science, supports projects financially, organizes networking meetings and conferences and moderates the exchange of experience and knowledge between the projects within the framework of training courses and workshops .
Award
The foundation was awarded the Göttingen Peace Prize in 2006.
literature
- Ilka Appel, Christina Grebe, Maria Spitthöver: Current garden initiatives: Allotment gardens and new gardens in major German cities. Kassel Univ. Press, Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3-86219-114-7 , p. 39 and passim; limited preview in Google Book search limited preview in Google Book search
- Christa Müller : Put down roots in a foreign country. The international gardens and their importance for integration processes . oekom Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-928244-82-5
- Christa Müller (Ed.): Urban Gardening - About the return of gardens to the city . oekom Verlag, Munich 2011
- Christa Müller / Karin Werner: Interculture Foundation. A new model for ecological and transcultural cooperation. In: Wolfram Elsner , Adelheid Biesecker (Hrsg.): Novel networks and sustainable development. Complexity and coordination in industry, city and region . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-631-52218-5 , pp. 309-323.
Web links
- Interkultur Foundation
- Anne Haeming: The Garden as a Brand , Die Zeit , May 2, 2011
- Susan Christely: Urban Gardening: Gardening in big cities as a trend , 3sat Kulturzeit , June 26, 2012
- Petra Schellen: Najeha Abid on intercultural gardens: "It's not just about gardening" , interview with Najeha Abid, employee of the Interkultur Foundation, Taz , August 12, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Intercultural Gardens , anstiftung.de
- ↑ anstiftung.de/urbane-gaerten/gaerten-im-ueberblick
- ↑ Downloads: Scripts on Migration and Sustainability , anstiftung.de
- ↑ Göttingen Peace Prize