On passing on someone elses writings
Working in Venice at the moment, assisting Cordeiro+Healy in their contribution to the Biennale. In the occasional spare time you go around looking for ancient trees and secret gardens. In the mean time this article was suggested by Lucas: Becoming native to this large place All around the countryside, growers of various nationalities have been […]
on one mile diets
There are lots of artistic investigations out there focusing on the way humans relate to their surrounding environments, like yours. Ally Reeves and Robin Hewlett have an ongoing project about just that. One Mile Diet takes the concept of the 100 Miles Diet movement to a new height (or distance, rather). Here’s how Ally Reeves […]
Reward Yourself one said, and let your readers know
What a steep hill you just climbed. It took you 5 days. Welcome reader! This is the upgraded version on the weedyconnection blog. It might look just the same to you, but behind the pretty pictures the code is new, the wordpress you’re seing is version 2.6!!! whoo hoo!! WordPress is an opensource facility which […]
A little Poetry
Found this one by searching blogs around, thought was lovely… Democracy by Ann Zelenka I’ve spaded up a garden But I haven’t planted seeds, This one’s going to be kept Exclusively for weeds – There won’t be distinctions Or uptilted noses, And Queen Anne’s lace is lovelier Than lilies or roses.
Tactical Sound Garden, cultivating sounds in public gardens
This guys from New York have yet another take on the relationship human/landscape. Please read on. Tactical Sound Garden [ TSG ] Toolkit Given the ubiquity of mobile devices and wireless networks, and their proliferation throughout increasingly diverse and sometimes unexpected urban sites, what opportunities – and dilemmas – emerge for the design of public […]
Planetary creator of the Gardens
Landscape designer, essay writer, novelist, creator very inspired of the exposure of the “Planetary Gardenâ€, Gilles Clément is one of the rare artists and French thinkers to have a holistic vision of the unit “ecology + culture.†Gilles Clement An article of Wikipédia, the free encyclopaedia. Gilles Clément, born in Argenton (Indre) in 1943 is […]
Feedback !!
Yep, I’ve noticed and been made aware that is somewhat difficult to provide feedback to the newly online database weedyconnection.com in the form of comments. Unfortunately thou i’m not that good in writing websites yet, and a blog is the best i can do for people to interact with this part of the virtual world. […]
