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"I felt a little like a kid in a sweet shop on discovering thinkingardens,..." Amanda Patton
This website contains: information about the thinkingardens group, (mission statement,manifesto and about us) details of interesting events and reviews of events, (events) details of significant gardens, (iconic gardens) letters that have been written to us, (letters) index of writers on the site (contributers) and a collection of articles about gardens and thinking about gardens (articles)
Quote of the month: "Here is a Zen garden, made entirely of meat." Tony Heywood, 'Vista' talk, Museum of Garden History 1st April 2008.
Most read: Germaine Greer 'Yes, gardens can be art: but you'd never know it from Chelsea Flower Show.'
New this month:
Anne Wareham: Considerations on visiting a Garden, with responses from Tim Richardson, Mike Gerrard, Antony Woodward, Jenny Woods, Chris Young, Clive Nichols, Yue Zhuang : what should, or could, a garden visitor reflect on in assessing a garden?
Ambra Edwards: interview with Ian Hamilton Finlay “Not really,” he says, “my preoccupations haven’t really changed at all. I certainly haven’t transcended my interest in battleships.”
Jenny Woods: 'Gardens and the Brain': ...."why the idea of the contrast between the Temples of Ancient and Modern Virtue may be intellectually amusing, but a standing stone in a misty hollow seems to communicate meaning at a level of consciousness below verbal reasoning....."
Amanda Patton 'Feeling Gardens': "gardens, ..... must move you on a deeper level than just being visually pleasing..."
Trialogue : discussion between three: Noel Kingsbury, Yue Zhuang and Anne Wareham - on the use of allusion in gardens, in the UK and in China.
Yue Zhuang: Reflections on garden design in Japan and China " The story of the unsuccessful Japanese gardener implies, it seems to me, a genuinely 'human' attitude of the Japanese,...."
Ambra Edwards: 'How to look at the Taj Mahal' "One of the most famous views in the world is about to change radically."
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ThinkinGardens Group: Mission Statement
The ThinkinGardens Group has been set up, with the support of the Royal Horticultural Society, in its role as a learned society, to encourage and develop a broader, more enquiring attitude to gardens. This will encompass the aesthetic of gardens, the philosophy of gardens, and what gardens mean or can offer. The Group’s work is aimed at stimulating both gardeners and non-gardeners alike.
It will seek to explore:
- The contemporary aesthetics of gardens
- Gardens as they relate to other arts, and garden makers as they relate to other artists
- The value of gardens to non-gardeners
- The importance of gardens to society
- The relationships between gardens and contemporary philosophy including scientific philosophy
To explore these aims the Group will facilitate activities which relate to the above (such as discussions, papers, articles, programmes, events and exhibitions) and will seek to bring them to the public eye, especially to like-minded organisations and individuals beyond the audience of the usual gardening public.
Members of the Group will bring together a mixture of creative disciplines from outside gardening, but will also include representation from the RHS and in particular from its monthly journal, The Garden. back to the top
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