Inside the somewhat planned realm of the modern city, there is still a landscape of unintended side-effects. Space left over after planning, gaps, cracks dents and grooves in the image of the modern city is being harvested in different ways by different groups of people. Most of them operating as individuals, but occasionally part of bigger groups, they constitute small societies or sub-cultures. This phenomenon is happening in cities all over the world and is in a way an indicator of the cities inability to live up to the promises of its image.
Given this, the individuals within such a culture would be indicators of the possibilities that exist within the urban framework in terms of unintended utilities. We call these individuals “urban farmers”.
Urban Farmers : Installation in the Taiwan pavilion at the Venice Biennale