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Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture AHM

Creating Green Worlds

VENI Grant | Project Leader: Dr. Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen | 2026-2029. Dutch excellence in horticulture has been renowned worldwide since the seventeenth century, altering local environments to cultivate plants introduced from all over the world. Considering horticulture as an epistemic domain, this project 'Creating Green Worlds: Constructing Horticultural Knowledge and Expertise in the Dutch Republic (1600-1800)' investigates how such horticultural knowledge and expertise was constructed in the early modern Dutch Republic.

This project examines how the interactions of hands-on practices, formalised knowledge, and the environments formed and shaped the expertise. Though analysing horticultural texts and images and implementing digital methods as a thinking tool, this research demonstrates the various processes of horticultural knowledge production, offering a unique historical perspective into Dutch green heritage.