EXPERIMENTING LANDSCAPES Testing the Limits of the Garden

Description

• At the interface of art and landscape design
• Internationally renowned designers from Europe and North America
• Experimental designs in a challenging Northern environment

Aims and Scope

Garden festivals are often a testing area for new ideas for landscape designers. On a small scale designers can experiment with innovative materials and explore emerging tendencies. The International Garden Festival in Métis in northern Quebec is probably the best-known festival in North America. This publication will explain the role of garden festivals in landscape design and present a selection of 25 gardens from Métis.

CONTENTS

• Preface. Fertile Terrain / Alexander Reford
• Introduction. Testing The Limits of The Garden / Emily Waugh
• Grounds for Experimentation / Alexander Reford / Chris Reed / Andy Cao / Xavier Perrot / Alissa North / Ken Smith / Paula Meijerink

Disaggregate and Re-Present

• Tiny Taxonomy / Rosetta Elkin
• Core Sample
• La Collection Du Jardinier
• Floating Forest
• Every Garden Needs a Shed and a Lawn!

Focus Within Frames

• A Ditch with a View / Ken Smith
• Making Circles in The Water
• Edge Effect
• Courtesy of Nature / Johan Selbing / Anouk Vogel
• Réflexions Colorées / Hal Ingberg

Altered Viewpoints

• Camouflage View
• Tree Stands
• Violence of The Garden (Land use Observatory)
• Dymaxion Sleep
• Around – About
• Sense of Place vs. Tabula Rasa: The Particular At Métis / Tim Richardson

Unexpected Materials and Formats

• Pomme De Parterre /Angela Iarocci / Claire Ironside / David Ross
• Dead Garden II / Carlos M. Teixeira
• Surface Deep
• Round Up
• Sacré Potager / Atelier Barda
• The Experimental Garden as an Exercise of Practice / Marc Hallé

Landscape as a Living Experience

• Histoire Sans Fin Ou Le Bois Dans Tous Ses Etats
• Le Jardin De La Connaissance
• Afterburn
• Sound Field / Douglas  Moffat / Steve Bates
• This Rocks! Get Lost!
• Appendix, Project Index, Acknowledgements, About The Contributors, Illustration Credits

184 pages, 240 colour illustrations, 40 black & white line drawings / 22 x 28 cm / English