Garden Anarchy in L.A. - Wonderground

Under quarantine, people have rushed to build their own backyard gardens.

To work like a gardener was to create life itself—the autonomous life of a visual universe that, in the artist’s words, was a world set in motion.

Plants and gardens are an important, and often undervalued, gateway drug. Wonderground is a place of storytelling; of irreverence, intelligence, curiosity and connection. It draws equally from culture and horticulture, art and science, beauty and botany. It’s a garden, though it’s taken me a while to see this.

A digital garden is a framework for speculation around how online space can be designed from the imagination of gardens. Here, the values of gardens, pluralism, interdependence, sustainability, adaptation, and discovery are centered in the design process of technosocial spaces. A garden is made up of the following parts:

Seeds: the content contribut... See more