Gardens of the future

Below is a collection of creative things I have done in the past, from floristry to wreath making to graphite drawings and painting. I thought it would be interesting to give an incite into this as it may give a background to my creative and design choices throughout this course and why I make the choices I do.  I also look to a lot of these things, especially floristry for inspiration in my designing.   

  For a recent cultural context lecture, we were each tasked to design a 5m x 5m festival garden based on the work and ethos of a specific chosen designer. These ranged from Vivienne Westwood, Bridget Riley, Andy Warhol etc. I was given the designer James Corner. Famously known for his work on the New York Highline. His style is definitely different to mine, as he tends to use quite brutalist materials and geometric shapes. Wheres I am a fan off cottage planting and organic shapes. Trying to combine my style while also playing homage to his design ethos was very interesting. Although I wouldn't usually design a garden in this way I do really like the outcome, and I feel it was good for me to design in a different way than I would naturally. 

As urban areas continue to expand and new towns and cities are built, greater resources are needed to support this development. As ( Harby , 2021 ) notes “Construction alone uses half of all non-renewable resources consumed.” worldwide. This staggering statistic highlights the immense impact the construction industry has on planet ary health, and does not even consider environmental health, carbon emission , deforestation and habitat destruction .   This cannot continue.   Often overlooked is the impact of extracting materials on deforestation . Between 2010 t o 2017 there was a decrease of 55.8 % in the quality of Chinas ecosystems . (Wang, 2022) This was primarily due to resource extraction and habitat destruction. In the UK we rarely see the impact of such large-scale resource extraction as we import most of our construction materials from abroad. £22,748 million worth of construction materials were imported into the UK in 2023 . (GOV.UK, 2024) .  ...