{"id":7857,"date":"2011-12-17T04:31:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T04:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=7857"},"modified":"2011-12-17T04:31:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T04:31:31","slug":"conceptual-gardens-folding-deleuze-and-landscape-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/conceptual-gardens-folding-deleuze-and-landscape-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Conceptual gardens, folding, Deleuze and landscape design"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is a conceptual garden? - and what is a folded landscape?<\/p><\/div>\n

\n The RHS has a conceptual gardens category, at the Hampton Court Flower Show<\/a>, which has produced excellent work, pathetic work – and much confusion. (See: Hampton Court Conceptual Garden Applications<\/a> for how the RHS explains the Concept Gardens idea). So let’s take the Folded Landscape<\/em>, by Voght for the Laban Centre<\/a> as an example.<\/p>\n

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  1. Conceptual art<\/a> foregrounds ideas, with visual imagery taking a backseat.<\/li>\n
  2. Gilles Deleuze<\/a> put forward a set of ideas which derive from deconstruction, and which have almost superseded deconstruction <\/a>as an influence on design theory. The underlying principle is monist<\/a>: the world is only one thing (which Spinoza <\/a>identified with God) and it constantly folds <\/em>into new forms. The One becomes the Many; the Many is always the One<\/em> (is there a Buddhist resonance here?)<\/li>\n
  3. Voght designed a Folded Landscape<\/em> for the Laban Centre<\/a>. It is a prime example of a Conceptual Garden Design – with room for fruitful debate as to whether the visual image is the foreground, background or reflected ground.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The folding concept, though explained by its advocates with the greatest possible linguistic obfuscation, is an attractive principle for the re-integration of architectural design with garden and landscape design – after modernism rent them asunder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The RHS has a conceptual gardens category, at the Hampton Court Flower Show, which has produced excellent work, pathetic work – and much confusion. (See: Hampton Court Conceptual Garden Applications for how the RHS explains the Concept Gardens idea). So let’s take the Folded Landscape, by Voght for the Laban Centre as an example. Conceptual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}