Seed memory Harry Reddick and Waag

In the first episode we’re highlighting work of Vergers Urbains, an organisation turning the streets of Paris into ‘urban orchards’ by creating small allotments of endemic fruit-bearing plantlife, like fruit trees and bushes, on the streets of Paris. We specifically explore the way they encourage a different relationship with the built and industrial heritage of Paris, whilst at the same time encouraging new shared skills vested in a tradition not instantly connected to the identity of the city.
Seed Memory is created by Harry Reddick for Waag. This episode includes the help of Léandre Potier of Vergers Urbains (vergersurbains.org). Vergers Urbains is a partner in the Centrinno project. Music by: Anton Pearson, Lewis Shields and Dan-O.

In this episode of Seed Memory, we hear from Kavya Venkatraman and Tamara van Kessel, assistant professor in the Department of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam, about the different things that might make up heritage, showing how broad the idea of heritage can be. We then hear from De Ceuvel, a sustainable community hub in Amsterdam-Noord in a former shipyard, exploring how they are re-valorising industrial heritage sites by dealing with their toxic legacies, restoring them to possible economic value (for building and living) in connection with the area’s identity(s), as well as speaking with Steven High, an industrial heritage historian from the university of Montreal, about a wider look at the issue of re-use of industrial heritage. This includes the emotional response that working-class communities associated with industrial sites feel about how deindustrialised sites exist in the present.
Credits: Seed Memory is created by Harry Reddick for Waag. This episode includes the help of Kavya Venkatraman, Tamara van Kessel, Tycho Hellinga, De Ceuvel, Steven High and Instituut voor Beeld & Geluid. Amsterdam-Noord Buiksloterham is one of the pilot areas of the Centrinno project. Music by: Anton Pearson and Lewis Shields.

This episode will continue thinking about the emotions associated with heritage. Firstly, it will include an interview with Hester Dibbits, director of Applied Museum and Heritage Studies at the Reinwardt Academy, about the concept of 'emotion networking' in the management of heritage. This will be combined with an interview with Australian eco-philosopher (and now, in his terms, a 'farmosopher') Glenn Albrecht about the way that emotions related to the environment or the natural world can become part of our identity. We explore whether that has become part of an intangible shared cultural heritage and what that could mean for the way we face up to ecological challenges.

Credits: Seed Memory is created by Harry Reddick for Waag. This episode includes the help of Hester Dibbits, Glenn Albrecht, Freesounds, and Ruby Ellis. Music by: Anton Pearson and Louis Shields.