An ongoing practice and experiment — Cabbagetown is a semi-nomadic, decentralized, ever-shifting underground culture that surfaces in urban environments as an exchange platform. Workshops, open kitchens, compost heap meetings, concerts — the form changes, the impulse doesn't.
The project functions as a planter for experimental cultivation, moving deliberately between the post-apocalyptic and the progressive ecological, refusing to settle into either narrative comfortably. From that tension, it develops shared instruments: verbal, musical, culinary, visual, technical — languages built collectively to imagine an alternative world, or more specifically, an alternative Ghent.
Cabbage is the central figure here, less as subject than as portal — a playful, disarming entry point into conversations about ecology, circularity, cross-pollination, and futures that don't yet have names. The logic follows the vegetable's own cycle: from soil to plate, to compost, and back into the soil. Whatever ground Cabbagetown occupies, it leaves more fertile than it found.
First presented at MAP — a project space at KASK & Conservatorium where master's students across disciplines bring work into the Glass Corridor, a light-filled passage that has hosted over 100 editions since 2012 — Cabbagetown has since continued to migrate, taking root wherever the conditions allow..
