The work began with Design Your Own Community Garden, a joyful workshop held during the 2025 festival on Calle San Roque. Participants of all ages and backgrounds gathered around a communal table to imagine gardens that might nurture both people and urban wildlife, drawing biodiversity, edible plants, and small pockets of nature into the city. Their individual designs came together as a collective landscape, a shared vision for a greener, more connected Logroño.

The symbols, plants, and gestures present in those drawings have travelled into The Potting Shed itself. Motifs from the workshop now appear across the structure's facade, carrying the participants' designs into the final work and weaving their stories into its form.

The work asks what it might mean to grow something together in public space. It draws on the spirit of the workshop, the exchange of seeds, of knowledge, of company, and proposes the city as a place where these practices can take root alongside everyday urban life. The Potting Shed becomes both a structure and a gesture, a place to tend to plants, to one another, and to the slow, patient acts of care that shape how we belong to a place. Visitors are invited to take seeds and stories home with them, continuing the cycle of growth and sharing beyond the festival.

Presented as part of Concéntrico's Urban Ecologies programme, the project sits within a wider curatorial enquiry into architecture, climate, materiality, and landscape in the contemporary city.

The Potting Shed will be on view in Logroño from 18 to 23 June 2026.

With thanks to the British Council Spain for their generous and continued support of the project, and to Concéntrico for the invitation and ongoing trust.