The Promised Garden

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the promised garden den forjettede hage rasmus steen pettersen studio b3 the new collective: the garden professors: Per Olaf Fjeld, Lisbeth Funck and Rolf Gerstlauer the oslo school of architecture and design fall 2015

what then is the space ... between human intentions and nature? the garden?

gardener (‘gard nər) : member of the primate genus homo, especially a member of the species homo sapiens, distinguished from other apes by a large brain and the capacity for speech and alternating natural conditions by instruments of his own making. currently considered the force in the universe having biggest impact on geological changes on the surface of the planet tellus.

I felt a striking certainty, as if I was immediately made aware of how little it all meant; life, death. for around me there was no sound, only light and shadows. have I been here before?

I could glimpse the mountains in the horizon. the sun was blocked, but like the mountains it didn’t protest. it is like they knew it all a long, what I now accepted.

the silence disappeared. the shadows were flickering by the wind. the trees didn’t care. they never do. they know what we long for, but we don’t understand their language. so they accept whatever we do, but they never obey. there is something very familiar with this place; like a distant memory. it feels as I belong here; like this is where I am from – where I was born. I have longed for this place, but the sensation is disturbing. was it all made for me?

the lord god planted a garden eastward in eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. and out of the ground the lord god made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. the tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. a river flowed out of eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers‌. then the lord god took the man and put him in the garden of eden to tend and keep it.

Genesis 2:8-10, 15

models in search of the garden

the garden is a song of the joy which lies in the land. sing it and feel humble at the greatness of humanity as a part of the world. the land is you Yunupingu, James Galarrwuy, “A Letter from Black to White�, Aboriginal Child at School, vol. 5, no. 1, 1977, p. 39.