Live Streamed from the British Library as part of Jaipur Literature Festival London.

Gardens provide communities with space and vision and an intimate access to nature. Unearthed: The Power of Gardening, the British Library’s currently running exhibition, exhibits this power of gardening as a centre of culture, habitat, and community. Matt Reed, Global Director of the Aga Khan Foundation, speaks of how the Trust uses green spaces to create sustainable community gardens around the world. Sui Searle, founder of @decolonisethegarden, works towards reclaiming gardening as a decolonial act — the garden as a tool of resistance. Antonia Moon is the co-curator of the British Library’s summer exhibition Unearthed: the Power of Gardening and the Library’s Lead Curator of Post 1858 India Office Records. In conversation with journalist and broadcaster Datshiane Navanayagam, they explore how gardening can be a joyous impetus for social change, creating nurturing spaces, healing, and community renewal.