HELEN ELKS-SMITH FSGD

Connections through time and space

As designers we bring about change and that change impacts the wider landscape and community. So how we do we decide what we need to change?

Change is driven by the needs of a client and the design brief starts as an expression of their experiences to date, their past.

A design needs to be sensitive to that which has gone before. Our challenge is to not be held captive by the past or current ‘trends’ but to look to the future, to create landscapes that will survive and thrive in the decades and centuries ahead. We are simply temporary custodians of precious soil. Gardens are never finished, rather they are living entities in a state of flux.

Helen will use a number of her garden schemes to explore these ideas.