"Gardening in the Archives" explores botanical gardens as living sites where plants, power, and memory intersect, through the connective thread of artist-researcher Alisha Dutt Islam across India and Switzerland. The project traces how migration, classification, and care shape landscapes and belonging. Through drawing, archival research, and spatial analysis, it reveals the archive not as static storage, but as a gardened terrain—layered, contested, and alive with histories of empire, and ecology.