Talking Garden is a mutually co-created water garden. It is a body of research that senses the interactions among ‘gardeners’ generating an archive of sound recordings.
The power and the frequencies of the sound wave leave traces on a digital generative landscape, which is eventually translated into a pattern. This pattern is then knitted in a piece of textile, integral for the activation of a collective reading performance on the notion of garden and gardeners in Metamorphosis by Emanuele Coccia.
A floating garden is the concept of a water garden and a proposal to the Ocean Space for the canal behind San Lorenzo in Venice, Italy. Influenced by the interview with the Professor in Ecology Fabio Pronovi at Università Ca Foscari, the mutually co-created garden is the idea of a garden system that is nourished by the organic matter in the lagoon and could track changes within its ecosystem whilst providing each of its gardeners with essentials they long.
The flourishing garden would then form a circular ecology between the nonhumans in the water, flora in the garden and fauna around it. By creating the idea of the floating water garden, we asked how we could enhance the co-creation within the garden. And how could the collected data from the garden raise awareness of the ecological processes to the locals and tourists?
The collected data over time would then be transformed into visual displays and an archive that would act as a documentation of the changes in the Venice lagoon and inform of its flora and fauna's sensitivity towards alterations in the ecosystem.
Thanks for contributions to Fabio Pronovi, Jane de Mosto, Piero Morseletto, Giacomo Bianco, Venice Calls.
Produced in the Netherlands in collaboration with the Ocean Space together with Riccardo Petrini and Marco Loi, 2022
