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