Garden and Metaphor : : Essays on the Essence of the Garden / / ed. by Ana Kučan, Mateja Kurir.

• MitwirkendeR: Barši, Jože,; Benjamin, Andrew,; Bordon, Erika,; Diedrich, Lisa,; Dolar, Mladen,; Gantar, Pavel,; Gazvoda, Davorin,; Gomes da Silva, João,; Habič Pregl, Barbara,; Jurman, Urška,; Karahasan, Dževad,; Komel, Dean,; Komelj, Miklavž,; Kosec, Miloš,; Kreft, Lev,; Kurir, Mateja,; Kučan, Ana,; Lička, Lilli,; Marušič, Janez,; Mikuž, Jure,; Nicolai, Olaf,; Prominski, Martin,; Rein-Cano, Martin,; Reinmuth, Gerard,; Steinitz, Carl,; Szilágyi, Kinga,; Treib, Marc,; Vodopivec, Aleš,; Wallenstein, Sven-Olov,; Ward Thompson, Catharine,; Weilacher, Udo,; Wit, Saskia de,; Zgonik, Nadja,
• HerausgeberIn: Kurir, Mateja,; Kučan, Ana,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2023]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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.

Selten hatte der Garten so viele Ansprüche zu erfüllen wie heute. Er ist Zufluchtsort vor dem digitalisierten Leben und agiert als Mittler zur Natur. Als vom Menschen angelegter Ort, in dem Pflanzen wachsen, ist er gleichzeitig kultiviert und unzähmbar. Während über Jahrhunderte hinweg der Ehrgeiz des Gärtners darin bestand, die Natur zu kontrollieren und zu unterwerfen, dient er heute eher als Surrogat für Wildnis, als Habitat für Tiere oder erfüllt den Traum vom Selbstversorgertum. In diesem Buch beleuchten Landschaftsarchitekt:innen, Architekt:innen, Künstler:innen und Philosoph:innen in sechs Kapiteln verschiedene Aspekte des Gartens im Anthropozän: der Garten als Ort der Nachbarschaft, Garten als Kunst, Garten als Ort des Bezauberns und der Entrücktheit. Die stimmungsvollen Fotografien von Anne Schwalbe fangen den Zauber von Gärten ein.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prolegomena. First There Was the Garden -- Japanese Gardens: Photographs by Anne Schwalbe -- Garden as Essence -- Picture -- The Garden of Life: From Birth to Death, Where Else but a Garden? -- The Garden as the Experience of a Promised World -- On Mistaking Garden for Nature -- Taking Responsibility for Landscape -- The Garden as a Spatial Idea -- Garden as Future -- Picture -- The Garden as an Expression of Supernature -- Thinking About the Future of Landscape Architecture -- Garden Thinking and Garden Action -- Becoming World Gardeners in the Anthropocene -- The Garden’s Complex Instrumentality -- Winterscapes -- Garden as Community -- Introduction -- Radicant Gardens -- The Community Garden as a Metaphor of Coexistence -- The City as a Garden -- Overgrown Plans -- Gardens as Spaces of Collective Imagination -- Garden as Enchantment -- Picture -- Need a Garden Be a Metaphor? -- The Garden as a Metaphor of Contemporary Paradise -- Heterotopia: The Garden as a Metaphor -- The Garden as Microcosmos -- The Garden as a Photographic Image in the Era of Digitalization -- Summer Splendour -- Garden as Art -- Picture -- Garden as an Open Work -- The Silent Garden -- Apology of a Garden -- The Garden in the Knot of Meaning -- The Metaphorical Life of the Garden -- paradise-darkness -- Fruits of the Garden -- Garden as Reflection -- Picture -- Let Us Cultivate Our Garden -- Gardengraph -- Architecture and the Supplement of Nature -- The Garden, Pleasure, and Epicurus -- Gardens of Others -- Post Scriptum -- About the Authors -- Dedication -- Illustration Credits -- Index