Garden Futures: Designing with Nature

by Jamaica Kincaid,  Gilles Clement, Leo Den Dulk, Kris Kozlowski, Oliver Sukrow

Gardens have always been places of leisure, pleasure and production; they reflect identities, dreams and visions. The recent revival of horticulture has focused less on the garden as a romantic refuge than as a place where we might imagine the future and develop solutions. Urban farms, vertical gardens and other innovative projects in art, architecture and urban planning demonstrate that the present return to the garden is no timid retreat, but a pioneering quest for a world in which social and ecological justice count for something.

Garden Futures examines what gardens and their design reveal about our relationship to nature. In exploring the history of ideas behind the genesis of the modern garden, the book takes a close look at the present, goes in search of origins in the past and builds bridges into the future. In the age of the Anthropocene, the entire planet emerges as a garden that we need to cultivate, tend and use responsibly.

Hardcover, 220 pages

Dimensions: 0.94 in. x 11.42 in. x 9.69 in.