AP Valletta’s submission to the 27th Quebec International Garden Festival, recognised as one of North America’s leading contemporary garden festivals, has been shortlisted.
Responding to a call for inclusive, relational design, our proposal, curated by Ann Dingli, ‘Marcher, c’est se mettre à rêver’ (to walk is to dream), serves as a ‘sensory cartography.’
The proposed walkable path tracks the sensations of a garden’s life. Along one water channel, a hybridised garden – composed of plant-life able to flourish in Quebec, as well as the Mediterranean context it comes from – gives a phenomenological experience of how ecology and identity intertwine within green spaces.
The design offers a direct sensory experience – the act of walking through a stream of water and feeling, in sequence, the life of a garden.
