A Garden for Music Therapy | Portland, UK | Unit 21 | 2022

The layout of a garden influences our intercalations. The garden designer proposes areas of high importance and low importance via the placement of prompts. During an hour long visit to The Tibetan Peace Garden, I scanned a finite number of spaces within the garden that presented themselves to be of greatest importance. With this data I reconstructed the garden with a void in placement of the areas of interpretated lower importance.

The pockets of data formed little chapters of The Tibetan Peace Garden that could be sampled. Insight into Japanese Rock Gardens presented how the void within a space can have higher importance than the prompts themselves. To bring importance to the areas of missing information within my reconstruction of The Tibetan Peace Garden, I developed a process to bridge the gaps between the chapters. The outcome sees a reimagined garden shaped within the void and grown according to the finite data of the pocketed chapters.