Agnieszka Dragon

Bio

Community practitioner, cultural worker and researcher. My practices explore local identity and narratives of various communities by ecological activities and hands-on involvement. Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland (2019), Polish-German Foundation of Knowledge (2019-2021). While not working, I get my hands dirty and contemplates nature on my allotment garden in Targówek district of Warsaw and raised bed in Poplar, London.

Projects, Workshops, Talks

  • 2022 Na działke! [guided tour in allotment gardens] Towarzystwo Krajobraz, Nowy Teatr, Warsaw
  • 2021 (ongoing) Seed workshops in cultural centres, libraries and gardens, Warsaw/Suwałki
  • 2021 Garden season – let’s meet on the plots! [project + toolkit] commissioned by City of Poznań
  • 2021 Plon – A Gerot [gardening workshop] Yiddish Culture Centre, Warsaw
  • 2021 Invisible City, Institute for the Study of Public Spaces [presentation] Warsaw
  • 2021 Urban Farming, City Culture Institute [talk & presentation] Gdańsk (PL)
  • 2020 The Politics of Public Space [audiowalk], Poligonal, Berlin
  • 2020 Warsaw Under Construction 12: Something in Common, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
  • 2019 Can Allotment Gardens benefit for everyone? [talk] Design Institute, Kielce (PL)
  • 2018 Artsakh Fest, ICA Yerevan, [participatory walk], Stepanakert (AM)
  • 2015 Way-Marking Młynow. art-residency of Plattformer collective, Warsaw
  • 2015 (ongoing) Warszawscy Działkowcy [Warsaw Allotment Gardeners], Warsaw
  • 2014 Tuning Warsaw, A-I-R Laboratory, Ujazdowski Castle CCA

Coordination, Production

  • 2023 Art Around the Corner residency program, Ochota Culture Centre, Warsaw
  • 2022 Walks for weeds and herbs [series of wild plants walks], Praga Culture Centre, Warsaw
  • 2020 – 2021 Gardens as inclusive Green Learning places, project Erasmus+
  • 2018 Adin-Dwa-Trzy on the Połnoc Estate [participatory art project], Suwałki (PL)
  • 2018 Odwiedziny. Cultural Fieldwork [community-based research project], Suwałki (PL)
  • 2017 Cleanup Baikal [ecological project], Ulan-Ude, Baikal Lake (RU)
  • 2017 Gartenlabor Community Garden, Berlin
  • 2015 – 2016 Suwałki Senior Club, Suwałki (PL)
  • 2016 Ogrod Osiedlowy [Neighbourhood Community Garden], Suwałki (PL)
  • 2015 – 2016 Temporary House of Culture, artists in residence project, Suwałki (PL)

Exhibitions

  • 2023 Autostrata, DOMIE, Poznań / Galeria UL, Gdańsk / Stroboskop, Warsaw / Halle 6, Munich
  • 2023 Warsaw Under Construction 15: The Cold Days Are Over, Wola Museum, Warsaw
  • 2021 Działkowicze czy działkowcy? Wola Cultural Centre, Warsaw
  • 2020 Spring in the Bem Housing Estate, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok (PL)
  • 2017 Poetyka miejskiego krzaka, Rotacyjny Dom Kultury, Warsaw

Publications

  • 2023 Ferrari E., Dańkowska A., Dragon A., Haase A., Kronenberg J., Haase D., Towards an integrated garden. Gardeners of all types, unite! Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Volume 81, 2023, 127857, ISSN 1618-8667
  • 2022 Dragon, A., Nasiono [A Seed], Atlas wszystkich mieszkańców, Puszka Foundation
  • 2022 Dragon, A., All Allotments Are Fortunate Island. Robida 8, 2022, pp. 54-58, ISSN 2611-7533
  • 2021 Dragon A., Dymek D., Krzywicka J., Katalog dobrych praktyk otwierania ROD [Catalogue of good practices for opening Allotment Gardens], commissioned by City of Poznań
  • 2021 Dańkowska A., Dragon A., Ferrari E., Guide for Fostering Cooperation for Integrated, in: Forms of Urban Gardening. Humboldt University, University of Lodz, Humboldt Uni
  • 2020 Dragon A., Ogrody społecznościowe Berlina [Community gardens of Berlin], commissioned by Bujna Warszawa, City Greenery Office, Warsaw
  • 2016 How to become an allotment gardener? The Make Yourself At Home Guide to Warsaw, published by the Ujazdowski Centre for Contemporary Art, ISBN 978-83-65240-06-4

Scholarships, awards

  • 2024 NextGenerationEU, National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NPRR)
  • 2019 – 2021 Scholarship of the Polish-German Foundation for Knowledge (DPWS) at Humboldt University
  • 2019 Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
  • 2018 The main prize of the ‘Social Initiative of the Year’ Competition of the Marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodeship (PL)

Education

  • 2018 – 2020 MA Research Training Program, Institute of Social Science, Humboldt University in Berlin
  • 2010 – 2012 MA Cultural Studies, University of Warsaw
  • 2006 – 2009 BA Cultural Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń (PL)

contact: dragn.agn@gmail.com

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