3 vol 63, nr 1 March the 15th 2021. ISSN on-line: 1139-7365 DOI: 10.1344/waterfront2021.63.1.01 Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek: The aesthetcs of green guerrilla. From actvism to fne art The aesthetcs of green guerrilla. From actvism to fne art Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek University of Łodz Email: agnieszka.gralinska@flhist.uni.lodz.pl Abstract Grassroots movements – the actvisms associated with the greening of the cites, reclaiming wastelands, establishing community gardens, improving the quality of life in industrialized places through minor nature-based interventons, as well as protecton and safeguarding of the scraps of nature within cites – are what in this artcle I call green guerilla. I want to demonstrate how these small-scale grassroots movements grow; how their actons lead to ofcial solutons; how they become insttutonalized and, sometmes, commercialized. However, above all, by linking them with the environmental and partcipatory aesthetc trends, I wish to indicate their aesthetc aspects and the fact that they frequently bear the hallmarks of art. Key words: urban greenery, guerrilla gardening, DIY urbanism, public space