We are looking forward to the presentation of the wonderful garden essay book "Garden and Metaphor", with co-editors Ana Kučan and Mateja Kurir, photographer Anne Schwalbe and landscape architect Martin Rein-Cano.
The presentation will be moderated by co-editor Mateja Kurir from and will begin at 7 pm. The contributors will talk about their work on the book and their relationship to gardens and landscape.
Admission is free!
About the book:
Never before had the garden to fulfil so many demands as it does today. It is a refuge from digitalised life and acts as a bridge to nature. As a man-made place where plants grow, it is cultivated and untamable at the same time. While for centuries the gardener's ambition was to control and subjugate nature, today it serves more as a place for retreat, a possible surrogate for wilderness, a habitat for animals or it fulfils the dream of self-sufficiency.
In this book, landscape architects, sociologists, architects, artists, philosophers and historians illuminate different aspects of the garden in the Anthropocene in six chapters: the garden as a place of community, garden as art, garden as a place of enchantment and rapture, opening up questions of what garden as a model could stand for.
