The last 30 years have seen a surge in temporary gardens. The
flexibility and new challenges invested in non-permanent landscapes
has made them a creative and stimulating testing ground for
professionals and impromptu designers. Raffaella Sini examines the
historical evolution of the genre, exploring theory, narratives,
and strategies informing 80 temporary gardens built in France,
Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Belgium,
Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, and the United
States. Key topics include: * temporary gardens in 1970s
avant-garde art and 1980s public art; * temporary gardens as
opportunities to work with live processes, practice inclusion, and
explore concepts of social justice and ecology; * temporary gardens
to redefine the vocabulary of garden design; and * temporary
gardens in tactical urbanism. The book comprehensively decodifies
the full range of ephemeral gardens: uprooted, mobile, itinerant,
movable, postmodern, installation, exhibited, conceptual, theme,
pop-up, guerrilla, grassroots, meanwhile, interim, provisional,
activist, community, and parklet. Beyond physical duration,
time-focused design in gardens affects the entire process of
conceiving, building, experiencing, and managing green spaces;
using short-term formats, anyone can invent, trial, and experiment
in a condensed experience of landscape. The temporary garden
emerges as critical cultural ground for the discourse in landscape
architecture, art, ephemeral urbanism, and in urban, landscape, and
garden design. It is inspirational reading for designers and
students alike.
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