Between 2019 and 2021, the research project “Integration of allotment and community gardens in Warsaw and Berlin” investigated forms of cooperation among urban gardeners that contribute to making allotment gardens more open and inclusive. The study examined the socio-spatial process of integrating two different types of garden, which involves both intangible and tangible dimensions and varies in timeframe from one garden to another.

Based on participatory and action-oriented methods, the research’s first outcome was the trilingual publication "Guide to fostering cooperation for integrated forms of urban gardening", aimed at various stakeholders interested in implementing this type of project in Poland and Germany.

In 2023, the paper "Towards an integrated garden. Gardeners of all types, unite!" was published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, in which the conceptualisation of a new form of hybrid urban landscape is presented: an integrated garden.

The project was coordinated by Humboldt University of Berlin (Dagmar Haase) and University of Łódź (Jakub Kronenberg) and financed by the Polish-German Foundation for Science (PNFN). Field researchers: Anna Dańkowska, Agnieszka Dragon, Elena Ferrari