An Economic History of the English Garden
A digital garden is a framework for speculation around how online space can be designed from the imagination of gardens. Here, the values of gardens, pluralism, interdependence, sustainability, adaptation, and discovery
are centered in the design process of technosocial spaces.
The archaeologist Andrew Sherratt came up with a particularly neat reversal of the conventional narrative about cultivation, by characterising the path that people took from gardening to farming as one that started with growing luxuries and ended with growing commodities. The focus on growing life-enhancing plants means that from the very beginning
... See moreSue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
Eckbo’s book Landscape for Living, published in 1950, made a case for closer connections between modern architecture and landscape design, and for most of his life he argued for the possibilities of landscape design as an agent of social change,
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
Gardening is not just a set of tasks. It’s not restricted to backyards, courtyards, balconies. It can, and should, happen anywhere, everywhere. Gardening is simply a framework for engagement with our world, grounded in care, action and intimacy with place. To garden is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and ... See more