Mobile Gardens is a youth-led initiative that reclaims public space and reimagines everyday urban life through mobile green infrastructures. The project engages young people, students, and marginalized groups in the construction, and care of plant-filled structures, empowering them to become active agents of ecological and social change.
Through hands-on participation, the initiative cultivates climate awareness, practical skills, and collective responsibility, while fostering solidarity across generations and cultures. Activities such as collective planting sessions, awareness-raising walks, and the activation of mobile units encourage participants to experience public space as a shared and evolving commons.
As part of the project, Urban Gorillas joined forces with students and teachers from Palouriotissa Lyceum to plant and activate a series of mobile gardens within the school environment. The sitting area accompanying the gardens was designed and constructed by the students together with their teachers as part of the Σχεδιασμός και Τεχνολογία (Design and Technology) course, reinforcing learning through making and collective care. Rolled across the schoolyard, these playful and adaptable units reimagined their spaces through movement, care, and collaboration, transforming the yard into a living laboratory for environmental action.
Mobile Gardens forms part of the youth climate actions of Urban Gorillas. The initiative is the winning proposal of KAMALÉ – KlimAte Mindful Actions Led by Engaged Youth Leaders and is implemented within the SUBLIME SDGs project, co-funded by the DFAR – Development Education and Awareness Raising programme.
Photos taken by Nafsika Hadjichristou.
