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This research aims to understand how urban community gardens maintain their civic purpose after institutionalization in Madrid.

August 9, 2026SustainabilityOpen Access

Adaptive Civic Commons in Madrid: Lived Experience, Agroecological Learning, and Negotiated Governance in Institutionalized Community Gardens

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This research aims to understand how urban community gardens maintain their civic purpose after institutionalization in Madrid.
Qualitative comparative case study involving 33 participants across 13 community gardens and contextual actors
Employing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis for in-depth idiographic interpretation
Conducting exploratory Mann–Whitney U tests on a 12-garden transcript subsample of approximately 85,219 words.
No significant thematic-rate differences identified in civic capacity based solely on cultivation layout.
Five mediating processes influencing civic engagement were identified: distributed roles, recurrent collective routines, knowledge translation, boundary-spanning partnerships, and accessible participation.
Participants described community gardens as therapeutic spaces, sites of agroecological learning, and platforms for fostering social connection and collective agency.

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Qualitative case study explores civic engagement in community gardens, highlighting governance and learning features.

Sánchez et al. (2026) studied this question.

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