gardening and the long now
How the practice of gardening translates to an embodied approach to being-in-the-world and new concepts of designing spaces.
“How do we design for processes that are messy, nonlinear, and often invisible? What would urban design look like if it embraced death, waiting, and interdependence as much as growth and progress?”
Gardening: designing with (not against) time
Gardens have evolved as planned, outdoor spaces for recreation, relaxation and growing food, satisfying a deep need for humans to organise and created and recognizse patterns, in garden design and seasonal change.
But modern gardens are waging a war on time. Maintaining a pristine lawn without one weed has long been the hallmark of good taste. Only those with ample leisure time and funds to hire gardeners, meaning those of the upper classes, were able to maintain such an absurd state, reflecting their proper and orderly and god-ordained place as rulers.
Keeping a lawn is keep time suspended, violating the laws of cyclical time.
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