Augmented Community Garden: The New Ethics & Aesthetics of The Picturescue Space
Sergey Nadtochiy, MArch (Year: 5)
Augmented Community Garden formulates the new ethical and aesthetic quality of the garden space for the global society of the 21st century. Working at the intersection of the physical and virtual realms, it takes individual garden spaces and effort contributed by people from all over the world and rewards everyone with a unique experience of the great picturesque space. Augmented Community Garden expands the possibilities for active involvement and knowledge exchange by providing remote engagement opportunities with exotic environments and species. The garden itself becomes the manifestation of the shared ownership, responsibility and care of an endless garden that brings together our diverse forms of understanding and appreciating plants.
It reconsiders the civic role of the garden in bringing together communities tied by the care for plants and enjoyment of gardens. Its ambition is to produce more than just the platform for AR glasses. This project manifest people’s collective ownership and responsibility for the look and the message of the whole new immersive media.
Imagine that being in Moscow you would be able to see your friends’ garden in London right in front of you. From small private spaces you would immerse in a spacious exotic garden.
This video is the key outcome of the project.
To summarize, this project proposes new forms of interaction with plants, changes their image, creates garden space for social interaction and develops tools and protocols for its communal maintenance
Originally gardens were private spaces used only for the production of food and enjoyment of nature, in recent centuries they have evolved into inportant public spaces.
The concept of this augmented garden comes from community gardens, that you can find in our cities, and the desire to share our thoughts and emotions with people living all over the world.
Prior to making the Augmented reality experience I have simulated community garden in virtual reality. My question was how places for individual self-expression can form a holistic environment?
Conceptual drawing of the garden created by the community of cannabis growers.
The glasshouse that captures the garden and the environment inside of it, was developed as a part of this project. It can automatically control ventilation, lights, temperature, humidity and watering.
Augmented greenhouses can be installed in public green areas of the city.
In Augmented Garden you would discover exotic plants, even if they don't grow in your region, because of environmental or legal issues.
