Nils Norman Radical Gardening Trailer

Nils Norman The Gerrard Winstanley Radical Gardening Space Reclamation Mobile Field Center and Weather Station (European Chapter)

Concept and design by Nils Norman Built by Doepner / Cummerow // f18, Hamburg 2000 Produced, assisted and cycled by the Galerie für Landschaftskunst Supported and financed by Anne Marie and Sören Mygind

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The Gerrard Winstanley Radical Gardening Space Reclamation Mobile Field Center and Weather Station (European Chapter) is a specially designed bicycle trailer that when in transit is a compact, weatherproof, lockable unit, roadworthy and user-friendly. It has been designed to travel between community gardens / allotments, town fairs, protest camps, and schools, where it is opened up and made ready for action. When stationary the bike trailer opened up reveals a small xerox machine, a library of books available for xeroxing, a weather station and a small working desk. Ontop is a solar panel which collects solar energy whenever the sun is out. The library consists of a unique collection of books, some quite rare, on experimental urban gardening / farming, horticulture, weather, D. I. Y. (do it yourself) culture, alternative city design and city gentrification. The bike is named after Gerrard Winstanley, the leader and Spokeperson for “the Diggers”, a group of 17th century indigent peasants who tried to defy the enclosure of common land by private interests; occupying it in en masse, digging it up, cultivating it for food and squatting. Nils Norman

Left: First exhibition and starting point for the voyage: Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, January 15 - February 5, 2000.
Right: At Cosima von Bonin's "The Cousins", Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2000. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn

Left: Visiting Dan Peterman's & Galerie für Landschaftskunst's "Extended Falster Video/Greenhouse", Campus of the University of Lüneburg, 2000.
Right: Kunstverein Wolfsburg, 2000.

Left: Visiting Dan Peterman's "Business Miles", Stichter See / Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, 2000.
Right: In the exhibition "out of space - Schnitt Ausstellungsraum im Kölnischen Kunstverein", Cologne, 2000. Photo: Kölnischer Kunstverein.

Left: Tate Britain, London, 2004. Photo: Tate Britain
Right: At the exhibition and symposium KÜHLLABOR, Krakauebene, 2012. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler

At the Yamuna-Elbe-Project, Hamburg, 2011.

A video by Florian Hüttner, Anna Gudjónsdòttir, and Nils Norman: The Gerrard Winstanley Radical Gardening Space Reclamation Mobile Field Center and Weather Station (European Chapter) For more information see GFLK videos

LIST OF BOOKS (a complete list will follow soon, March 2016)

1. Ken Fern: Plants for A Future. Edible & Useful Plants For a Healthier World
2. John M. O’Keefe: Water Conserving Gardens And Landscapes
3. Tony Secunda and John Goodchild: Grow Your Own Trees. A Book & Seeds
4. Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Growing Fruits
5. John Soper: Bio-Dynamic Gardening
6. Robert Hart: Forest Gardening. Cultivating an Edible Landscape
7. James B. DeKorne: The Hydroponic Hot House
8. Nancy Wilkes Bubel: The Adventurous Gardener
9. Ed Rosenthal: Closet Cultivator
10. Rob Herwig: The Pocket Guide To Houseplants. Complete Care for 300 Plants
11. Grace Gershuny: Start With the Soil
12. J.C. Jenkins: The Humanure Handbook
13. Ruth Stout: Gardening Without Work
14. Graham Bell: The Permaculature Garden
15. O.T. Oss & O.N. Oeric: Psilogybin: Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide
16. Adelma Grenier Simmons: Herbs To Grow Indoors
17. Brian Capon: Botany for Gardeners
18. Ed Rosenthal: Hemp Today
19. Masanobu Fukuoka: The Road Back to Nature
20. Louis C.C. Krieger: The Mushroom Handnbook
21. Anne Whiston Spirn: The Granite Garden. Urban Nature and Human Design
22. Marie Fleming: The Geography of Freedom
23. Melford E. Spiro: Kibbutz. Venture in Utopia
24. Percival Goodmann, Paul Goodman: Communitas
25. S. M. Lipset: Agrarian Socialism
26. Marshall S. Shatz: The Essential Works of Anarchism
27. Janet Biehl: The Politics Of Social Ecology
28. Tony White: Road Rage. When the crusties take on the road builders, Mother Nature decides to lend a helping hand
29. Merrick: Battle for the Trees. Three month of responsible ancestry
30. Stephen Booth: City-Death
31. Gerrard Winstanley: Selected Writings
32. Wendell Glick: Great short Works of Henry David Thoreau
33. Colin Ward: Peter Kropothkin’s. Fields, Factories and Workshops Tomorrow
34. Rinehart Editions: Henrsy David Thoreau. Walden – on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
35. Odell Shepard: The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals
36. A.S. Makarenko: The Road To Life, 1
37. A.S. Makarenko: The Road To Life, 2
38. Andrew Ross: Strange Weather
39. Jonathan Beecher, Richard Bienvenu: The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier
40. David M. Ludlum: National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather
41. Donald J. Boroor, Richard E. White: Insects
42. Paul A. Opler, Vichai Mallikul: Eastern Butterflies
43. Vincent J. Schaefer/John A. Day: Atmosphere. Clouds, Rain, Snow, Storms
44. Dave Foreman: Ecodefense. A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching
45. Derek Wall: Earth First! And the Anti-Roads Movement
46. Suspect/Holligan: Ideal Home. Survival Edition
47. Sarah Bunkter: Diggers & Dreamers
48. Francis Reed: On Common Ground
49. Virignia Coover:Resource Manual For A Linving Revolution
50. George McKay: DiY Culture. Party & Protest in Nineties Britain
51. Road Raging: Top Tips for Wrecking Roadbuilding
52. Peter Lamborn Wilson, Bill Weinberg: Avant Gardening
53. Richard B. Seymour: Compost College, Life on a Counter-Culture Commune
54. Harold Sculthorpe: Feedom to Roam
55. Donald Marier: Wind Power
56. Jack B. Nimble: The Construction and Operatio of Clandestine Drug Laboratories
57. Ed Sherman: How to build A bBigger and Better Hydroponic Garden
58. David Watkins: Urban Permaculture
59. Felix Guattari: Chaosmosis.
60. David Huw Stephens: The Survivor House 61. Nancy Jack Todd, John Todd: From Eco-Cities to Living Machines
62. Durchgänge in der Hamburger Innenstadt
63. Euell Gibbons: Stalking The Wild Asparagus
64. Ralph Nader: Ecotactics
65. John Lobell: The Little Green Book
66. Hippycore Krew: Soy, Not Oi!
67. Gabrielle van Zuylen: Paradise on Earth
68. Karl Hess: Community Technology
69. Tom Mangold & John Penycate: The Tunnels Of Cuchi
70. Richard Golob and Eric Brus: The Almanac of Renewable Energy
71. James c. McCullagh: The Soar Greenhouse Book
72. David Engwicht: Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
73. Simon Fairlie: Low Impact Development
74. Michael Brower: Cool energy
75. Steve Lerner: Eco-Pioneers
76. John Whitelegg: Critical mass
77. Michael Goldman: Privatizing Nature
78. Ross V.G. Dobson: Bringing The Economy
79. New left review, 232
80. Janet L.Abu-Lughod: From Urban Village to East Village
81. Neil Smith: The New Urban Fromtier
82. Neil Smith and Peter Williams: Gentrification of the City
83. Timothy Doyle and Doug McEachern: Environment and Politics
84. David Nicholson-Lord: The Greening Of The Cities
85. Elvin McDonald: The Complete Book of Gardening Under Lights
86. Jane Holtz Kay: Asphalt Nation
87. Brian Tokar: The Green Alternative
88. Colin Ward: Reflected in Water
89. Colin Ward: Talking Houses
90. Colin Ward: Freedom To Go
91. Colin Ward: When we build Again
92. Colin Ward: Welcomee, Thinner City
93. Mark Roseland: Eco-City
94. David Gordon: Green Cities
95. Suzanne Ashworth: Seed to Seed
96. Nancy Cole and P.J.Skerrett: Renewables Are Ready
97. Dudley Harris: The Illustrated Guide to Hydroponics
98. Jeremy Rifkin: Green Lifestyle Handbook
99. Michael Reynolds: Earthship I
100. Michael Reynolds: Earthship II
101. Chris Zelov: Design Outlaws on the Ecological Frontier
102. Joan Roelofs: Greening Cities
103. The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening
104. Mark Dion & Alexis Rockman: Concrete Jungle
105. Donald E. Pitzer, Josephine M. Elliott: New Harmony’s First Utopians
106. Miranda Smith: Backyard Fruits and Berries
107. Easy Composting
108. Eliot Coleman: Four-Season Harvest
109. John Jeavons: How to Grow More Vegetables
110. Robert Kourik: Designing and maintaining Your edible Landscape Naturally
111. City Cyclist, September/Oktober 1999
112. City Cyclist, July/August 1998
113. 2 x City Cyclist, January/February 1999
114. Sustainable Transport, Number 8, Winter 1998
115. Sustainable Transport, Number 9, Fall 1998
116. Transportation Alternatives, Volume 5, No.2, March/April 1999
117. Frontline, Issue 2/1995
118. Permaculture Magazine, Issue No 19
119. Leon Whiteson: The Watts Towers of Los Angeles
120. Russell: the Saga of a Peageful Man
121. Russell: the Saga of a Peageful Man, Part 2
122. Russel’s Big Strip Stupormarket
123. William Edgerton: Memoirs of Peasant Tolstoyans in Soviet Russia
124. Denise Searle: Gathering Force
125. John Rave On’s Schnews
126. Bill Mollison: Introduction to Permaculture
127. Squatting. The Real Story
128. Martyn Day: Environmental Action
129. John Schaeffer: A Place in the Sun
130. Stace Wakefield: Not For Rent.
131. David Engwicht: Steet Reclaiming
132. Rosemary Morrow: Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture
133. Permaculture Magazine, Issue No 13/1996
134. Bill Mollison: Permaculture
135. Bill Mollison: Permaculture Two
136. Regionald M. Lester: The Observer’s Book Of Weather
137. Felix Guattari: Soft Subversions edited by Sylvère Lotringer
138. Till Krause: Durchgänge in der Hamburger Innenstadt

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