20.500.12556/RUL-182574 Cultivating together unearthing the transformative potential of community gardening as prefigurative collective action in Ljubljana Community gardening as a form of collective action has the potential to drive transformative social change. Despite this, few studies offer empirical insights into how community gardening affects transformative social change in practice. This study aims to address this gap by examining the Onkraj gradbišča community garden in Ljubljana. Employing fieldwork with participant observation, exploratory and in-depth interviews, and a review of secondary sources as research methods, the study explores how community gardening enables and sustains transformative social change and how institutional support (or lack there of) impacts community gardening as a transformative community strategy. The findings reveal that Onkraj gradbišča fostered key conditions of transformative social change, including inner transformation, collective leadership, community capacity building, and some scaling strategies. In contrast, scaling upstrategies were ineffective and the absence of institutional support limited the impact of community gardening on enabling governance. These findings suggest that the transformative potential of Onkraj gradbišča to contribute to path-shifting urban sustainability transitions was limited. Nevertheless, as a form of prefigurative collective action, Onkraj gradbišča provided atangible alternative for food production, community capacity building, land use management, and urban planning in the city. The study argues that performing a “vision of a better world” may be the main legacy of Onkraj gradbišča, highlighting the transformative potential of community gardening in Ljubljana. community gardening prefigurative collective action transformative community strategies transformative social change urban gardens skupnostno vrtnarjenje prefigurativno kolektivno delovanje transformativne skupnostne strategije transformativne družbene spremembe urbani vrtovi true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-05-18 02:04:50 2026-05-18 02:05:00 2026-05-18 04:40:36 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 1–22 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-05-09 316.354:711.4:635 1469-6711 10.1080/13549839.2026.2669757 278394627 RAZ_Kriznik_Blaz_2026.pdf RAZ_Kriznik_Blaz_2026.pdf 1 B90F15307A6CA20CF982BABB39EE3E95 993f04a9b149ec19a4cc8f09a2ec7c2ea286e109094d6d9d077d819779792f52 27d605ad-524d-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=233951 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.2026.2669757 1 e76f20a1-524c-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=233950 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0