STAPPMANNS, Viviane; STEINMÜLLER, Nina; MADDÈ, Carolina (eds.)
Garden Future. Designing with Nature

Will gardens help us achieve a liveable future for everyone? Gardens reflect identities, dreams, and visions. Deeply rooted in their culture, they can unfold immense symbolic potential. The recent revival of horticulture has focused less on the garden as a romantic refuge than as a place where concepts of social justice, biodiversity, and sustainability can be tried and tested. Gardens have become places of the avantgarde.

The catalogue of the exhibition, Garden Futures at the Vitra Design Museum addresses these questions and surveys the history and future of modern gardens, using a broad range of examples from design, everyday culture, and landscape architecture – from deckchairs to vertical urban farms, from contemporary community gardens to living buildings to gardens by designers and artists including Roberto Burle Marx, Mien Ruys, and Derek Jarman.

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Published by Vitra Design Museum, 2023
Exhibition Catalogues / Design / Ecology / Architecture