Nachtfalter – Leuchten mit Michael Ludwig

On the occasion of the exhibition Things That Were Are Things Again, the Society for Interspecies Friendship created microhabitats - habitats for small animals and insects - in the GfZK garden.

Once a year, the Society for Interspecies Friendship and LeipzigBirds invite you to a bioblitz #gfzkbiodiversity in the GfZK garden!

The Society for Cross-species Friendship deals with the serious loss of biodiversity. Their projects are designed for the long term and transfer permaculture methods to artistic action. In this way, they create habitats and networks of relationships. They started in 2021 with small editions. They consist of folding cards with plant seeds (limited by the amount harvested). Each card tells the story of the reciprocal relationship between a plant and an animal in watercolors and text. The cards are an invitation to participate in this relationship. They see the microhabitats in the GfZK garden as places for encounters with non-human creatures.

In cooperation with LeipzigBirds, the Society for Interspecies Friendship has set up a project on biodiversity in the GfZK garden on iNaturalist. This is a worldwide citizen science project. Laypeople collect photos and sound recordings of living creatures. The observations flow into the stock of scientific data on biodiversity.