Inspired by the work of Brenda Colvin , and the images btw are taken from Trish Gibsons interesting book on landscape architect Brenda Colvin,Trish Gibson 2011, I began today to formulate an idea for creating post viral landscapes, going beyond concepts of re wilding , sustainability and biodiversity and instead letting strong bold planting tell it's own story and communicate it's own intelligence.
Initial thoughts to site research Glasnevin Industrial Estate, which is particularly placed between the Royal Canal and Tolka Linear Park and to create some kind of bridge or island that is planted between the two spaces.
This would not be a conventionally pretty planting or community garden and neither would it be a Sheffield Nigel Dunnett type of sustainable planting but it would be something more futuristic , post viral , not soft and blended but remarkable and unknowable.
This would be done in the belief that ours are not the only intelligences at work on the planet and that nothing in our world is static.
This project could be a collaboration with architecture and science and art as well as horticulture and other landscape practitioners.
And would apply a different lens to the local landscapes we have walked often daily in this past year of restricted movements.
It would also tie in ,in spirit, with the project begun many years ago in the landscapes of Athy. More on this later.
This may just be a way to initiate new conversations or it may become a series of online posts on instagram and other places or it may get other legs entirely.
Carmel
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