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To Listen is to Think
Growing since 2021 in the former railway tracks in front of Speicher XI, WARTEN/GARTEN
intertwines artistic practice, ecology, and history. The ground beneath it still bears
the memory of Bremen’s colonial narrative, once home to warehouses of goods arriving
from overseas. Today, native and adventive plants grow together in this soil, carrying
stories of displacement and resilience.
This website grew from that same ground. Conceived and shaped collectively by students of
Integrated Design, Fine Arts and Digital Media within the seminar “To Listen is to Think:
A Sound Archive for WARTEN/GARTEN”, developed together with PhD candidate Christian Rosales
Fonseca at the University of the Arts Bremen, it became a space to gather and share what
we have experienced together. We designed, curated and coded this page as an accessible extension
of the garden, a place where sounds, visuals, and thoughts continue to grow.
The WARTEN/GARTEN Sound Archive is created and cared for by us, the students. It carries
forward the spirit of earlier artistic projects rooted in the garden, extending its
networks of experiencing through listening, visualizing, and feeling. Like the garden
itself, it remains in motion, a shared space of learning, collaboration, memory, and
care.
This website is possible thanks to the support of the Freundeskreis der HfK Bremen.
To Listen is to Think
Legal Information
1. Imprint according to Telemedia Act (TMG)
This archive is a non-commercial educational project created in the context of the course To Listen is To think: A Sound Archive of Warten Garten at the University of the Arts Bremen.
Responsible for the Content and Administration
Christian Andres Rosales Fonseca
crosalesfonseca@hfk-bremen.de
University of the Arts Bremen
Am Speicher XI 8, 28217 Bremen
Phone: 0421 95951000
2. Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights
The content published in this archive (texts, audio recordings, images, etc.) is protected by German copyright law and, unless otherwise noted, is the intellectual property of the respective students of the HFK course.
To Listen is To think: A Sound Archive of Warten Garten (2025-2026)
Contributions: Yang Liu, Cedric Müller, Simon Wohlgemuth, Birsu Akyigit, Linda Müller, Sayed Hashem Ali, David Aland, Kim Seongjin, Anna Kozlyaeva, Elizaveta Firsova, Ciara Gallagher, Maya Levine, Mojtaba Akbari, Marina Schier, Mojtaba Akbari, Lina Walk, Lucca Vitters, Lilli Fischer and Emma Bohne.
Financial Contributions: Freundeskreis HfK Bremen
Supporters: We Dig It!
Any duplication, editing, distribution, and any kind of exploitation outside the limits of copyright law requires the prior written consent of the respective author or creator.
B. Usage Rights:
Content from this archive is made available purely for educational, non-commercial, and informational purposes. For any commercial use, please contact the responsible persons listed above.
3. Responsibility for External Links (Disclaimer)
Our website may contain links to external third-party websites, the content of which we have no influence over. Therefore, we cannot assume any liability for this external content. The respective provider or operator of the pages is always responsible for the content of the linked pages. The linked pages were checked for possible legal violations at the time of linking. Illegal content was not recognizable at the time of linking.
However, permanent monitoring of the content of the linked pages is unreasonable without concrete evidence of a violation of law. Upon notification of violations, we will remove such links immediately.
Privacy Policy
1. General Information
This Privacy Policy informs users about the nature, scope, and purpose of the collection and use of personal data by the website operator (the students responsible for this educational project, see Impressum) on this website.
The legal basis for data protection is the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Telemedia Act (TMG).
2. Responsible Party for Data Processing
The party responsible for data processing on this website is the student project group, which led by a represented by the named persons in the Impressum:
Christian Andres Rosales Fonseca
Crosalesfonseca@hfk-bremen.de
Quotes and passages we read, reflected on, and discussed
"Since the inception of European exploration, conquest and colonization, animals, plants (and humans) were transported from their areas of origin to Europe for imperial interest, knowledge and profit. Botanical resources in particular were shipped to Europe (and redistributed to other colonies) as commercial crops or as raw materials, particularly after the Industrial Revolution."
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