I SOCIETY AND GARDENS INVITE DIALOGUE Klaus Töpfer Historic gardens and society Jürgen Renn, Michael Rohde Gardens should engage in dialogue with society Jan Woudstra Society and Gardens A Dynamic Relationship Michael Bongardt With Jonas in the park: On the kinship between future ethics and garden art Ute Stoltenberg Historical gardens in the process of sustainable development Johanna Leissner The European Green Deal and the role of cultural heritage for society Reinhard F. Hüttl, Bernd Uwe Schneider Societal appreciation of historic gardens and cultural landscapes as physiographic spaces and places of scientific research Eske Nannen II GARDENS IN CULTURAL HISTORY Felix Arnold A garden in the desert: Pharaonic landscape architecture Defne Akşyn Akyol History of Garden Culture in Turkey Andreas Pečar Palace gardens as an expression of the notional culture of princely rule Christian Hlavac Before WhatsApp, Facebook and WikipediaL Networking and knowledge acquisition in the th century Hans-Joachim v. Buchka Familienstiftung Hofgärtner Hermann Sello: The preservation of a cultural heritage as a generational undertaking Hubertus Fischer How do green spaces and gardens benefit society? Answers from the past to questions of the present Joachim Liebig Concerning the connection between religion and gardens Helmut Glück, Gerhard Meiser What languages reveal about gardens Christopher Lehmpfuhl III PRESERVATION OF GARDENS AS CULTURAL HERITAGE Birgitta Ringbeck Historical garden and park landscapes and the appreciation of the “green heritage” from the perspective of the World Heritage Convention Michael Kummer Historic garden conservation in a thicket of paradoxes Paul Bellendorf Everything is transitory: On dealing with the decay of cultural heritage Willem Zieleman Het Loo: The estate’s identity through the centuries Nuno Oliveira, Denise Pereira On the turn of a paradigm: Managing the parks and gardens of Sintra (Portugal) Johannes Stoffler Striking a balance between densification and preservation Willi Neukom’s gardens at ETH Zurich’s Hönggerberg campus Jens Hendeliowitz Cultural History, Use and Professional Care exem­ plified by two Historical Gardens in Denmark Doris Törkel, Ursula Kellner Administration alone is not enough: The Rheinpark in Düsseldorf as an example of municipal garden monument preservation Bernd Rubelt, Antje Graumann, Lars Schmäh, Steffen Tervooren, Torsten von Einem The role of historic gardens in the context of urban development by Potsdam municipal authorities Dietger Hagner Ingredients for the sustainable conservation of garden heritage, exemplified by the special use of trees and shrubs on Katzenkopfwiese at Altenstein Palace Park Sascha E. Oswald, Philip Bubeck, Annegret H. Thieken Historical gardens with new roles: Varied functions for urban conurbations require a reassessment of historical gardens in the climate change century Jürgen Kern, Martin Geyer Scientific research and historic gardens Holger Schulz Maintenance in the Gardening Profession – a new old supreme discipline? Oliver Westerbarkey IV EFFECTS OF GARDES ON SOCIETY Falk Schmidt Sustainability and responsibility: The (historic) garden, singular and planetary Manfred Spitzer Nature transformed into culture The effects that gardens have on people Jesko Hirschfeld The societal value of historical gardens and parks An expanded economic perspective Cornelia Müller Landscape is Everywhere Jochen Sandner, Sibylle Eßer From Garden Show to Public Park: Certification preserves Values Matthias Groß, Maria Pfeiffer The Surprise of Gardening: Joy and Disappointment through the Virtue of Not Knowing Arno Brandt The socio­political significance and value of gardens and parks Rita Hombach Interaction and symbiosis between gardens and music Sven Hannemann The value of Historic Gardens to society Franziska Klotz V PERCEPTIONS OF GARDENS IN SOCIETY Susanne Dohrn A long­established garden as a cultural landscape: Tracing the past in the undergrowth Edgar Lotz Gardens and medicine Gerlinde Beining Consistency in times of crisis Miriam Janssen Historic gardens: Spaces of continuity and contemplation Heike Rohde-Siebel Historic gardens: Designed nature as a musical experience Martin Faass Observations from the Liebermann Garden Juliet E. Oldenburger The garden as a mirror in the world Andreas Knapp Gardens and orchestral music: World cultural heritage as a future opportunity for social interaction Franziska Lutz The potential of school gardens based on the example of the educational programme GemüseAckerdemie Hubertus Hamm VI COMMUNICATING RESPONSIBILITY FOR GARDEN CULTURE Annegreth Dietze-Schirdewahn Archives and their contribution to a more conscious approach to the history of the profession Oliver Günther, Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile Garden history, landscape conservation and environmental humanities at the Research Center Sanssouci (RECS) in Potsdam Brigitte Mang Educational diversity in historic gardens and parks Roland Zieschank The Future of Historical Gardens Sustainability as a Bridge? Birgit Mandel Historic gardens and parks as a resource for modern­day cultural identity and cultural education Barbara Welzel, Christopher Kreutchen GartenSPÄHER – new choreographies for sharing heritage and garden education Inken Formann “Cultural environmental education”: An appeal for historic gardens to be used as places of learning for children and young people Sylvia Butenschön The world in a garden: Aspects of world culture conveyed through historic gardens Daniel Roehr SENSE…ible Parks and Gardens Bettina Gräfin Bernadotte, Tobias Mayer Mainau Island: Botanical Palace Park with an Educational mission Dirk Häusser, Andreas Kramp A garden for everyone needs everyone for a garden Hermann Rogger School and society: Art, giftedness and responsibility based on the example of Pustertal School Association (South Tyrol) Thomas Hammer Pixels in the park: Film and photographic projects at Medienschule Babelsberg Katharina Matheja, Manja Krausche PLANTING THE FUTURE: New greenery for the World Heritage List of authors Bibliography