{"id":8413,"date":"2012-05-29T06:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T06:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=8413"},"modified":"2012-05-29T06:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T06:26:51","slug":"garden-of-disorientation-design-for-the-2012-chelsea-fringe-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/garden-of-disorientation-design-for-the-2012-chelsea-fringe-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden of Disorientation: design for the 2012 Chelsea Fringe Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"775\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kReztQ7AyxQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Smithfield is renowned for the ghostly late-night movement of animal carcasses and more recently for the early-morning traffic of displaced revelers. Adding to the mix is this new internal garden space, the Garden of Disorientation&#8217;. I went to visit the garden on a really hot day in the course of a long cycle ride to visit other Chelsea Fringe projects. Suffering from heat disorientation, I found this intriguing space blessed me with <em>orientation<\/em>, as did a delicious drink. Deborah Nagan, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naganjohnson.co.uk\/\">naganJohnson<\/a>, designed the Garden of Disorientation for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden_design\/shows_festivals\/chelsea_flower_show\/chelsea_fringe_festival_flowers_gardens_gardening_london_2012\">2012 Chelsea Fringe<\/a>. The Garden of Disorientation is at 59 Charterhouse Street, Smithfield, London, EC1M from 19th May to 10 June 2012. Deborah is a graduate of  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gre.ac.uk\/study\/courses\/pg\/lan\">MA Landscape Architecture at the University of Greenwich<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moderngardencompany.com\/\">Modern Garden Company<\/a> was the main sponsor and supplied the excellent garden furniture: it is tough, stylish and street-worthy.<br \/>\nThere are lots of reasons for wishing the Chelsea Fringe every success: it makes London an even more exciting city; it confirms London&#8217;s role as the world&#8217;s garden capital; it creates opportunities for landscape architects to show what wonderful things they can do for the city; it lets sponsors do really good things with their marketing budgets. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/londongardenswalk\">We have many helpful suggestions!<\/a><br \/>\nSo COME ON EVERYONE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chelseafringe.com\/\">the Chelsea Fringe has 100 projects in 2012<\/a>: LETS MAKE IT 1000 PROJECTS IN 2013. Anyone unlucky enough not to be in London from 19th May to 10th June 2012 can do the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/London-Gardens-Walk-history-ebook\/dp\/B007L110K0\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1337149177&#038;sr=8-1\">London Gardens Walk<\/a>. It is open on every day of every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Smithfield is renowned for the ghostly late-night movement of animal carcasses and more recently for the early-morning traffic of displaced revelers. Adding to the mix is this new internal garden space, the Garden of Disorientation&#8217;. I went to visit the garden on a really hot day in the course of a long cycle ride to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413"}],"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=8413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}