Community Seed Bank for Colour (CSBC)

Enhancing the use and experience of botanical colors in daily life with an open source seed bank for historical dye plants.

Hosted by Studio Claudy Jongstra & Extended Ground

This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

Event type

Exhibition

Location

Hallenweg

Atelier NL

Bergmannstraat 76

5615 KG

'Tidal' by Claudy Jongstra

©Anne Claire de Breij

CSBC is an open source seed bank for historical dye plants that promotes the revitalization of our visual world while stimulating biodiversity, contributing to the preservation of cultural heritage and protecting indigenous plant species.

For centuries, botanical colours have played a central role in agriculture, economy and culture. The cultivated landscape provided a wealth of flowers and plants that yielded rich colours for diverse application in art and daily life, not the least of whi

Isatis tinctoria seed cluster

©Studio Claudy Jongstra

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Studio Claudy Jongstra & Extended Ground
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About Studio Claudy Jongstra & Extended Ground

Extended Ground, founded by Claudy Jongstra (artist & activist) and Claudia Busson (horticulturalist & wild gardener) at De Kreake in Húns, The Netherlands, is a cutting-edge biodynamic farm and field lab. The locally rooted agro-ecological model at the core of Extended Ground has the capacity and ambition to adapt to diverse landscapes and socio-cultural conditions.