Transitional garden

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A transitory garden or temporary garden is a garden that is only created temporarily from the outset. In principle, a garden with its living elements is always a work that changes, grows and fades over the course of the seasons, but a transitory garden consciously and intentionally only exists for a more or less limited period of time.

However, it is often not a garden in the traditional sense, but a place or (outdoor or indoor) space that is more or less intensely greened in a wide variety of ways. This place or space is often not even suitable for permanent greening. Sometimes it is only temporary itself.

background

The changes in modern western society in the direction of “ deregulation ”, “flexibilization”, “mobilization”, “time limit”, “ temporary work ”, “thinking in processes”, “ just in time ”, etc. bring an increase in the temporary use of places and spaces with himself.

This is reflected in the artistic reflection as well as in the green planning options, to which the transitory gardens are one of the possible answers.

The transitory character can be a pragmatic method of making greening possible in the first place legally (as an "exception", "test project", "better temporarily than not at all" or similar), or to increase the communication or acceptance of art (" Getting used to ”or hoping for a change of opinion once the object is there and has an effect): “ The work, which is only temporarily shown on the street, still convinces the greatest skeptics. You only have to tell them that they will not have to suffer long ” (Daniel Buren, 1997).

Demarcation

  • The term “transitory gardens” is usually understood to mean those that are created as part of an art event in a more or less public space , e.g. B. as installation , intervention . Since the mid-1990s, landscape planners have also been designing transitory greening projects in public space as "temporary use", so to speak, "like the nylon stocking as a V-belt replacement", often also in the form of an art campaign. The transitory gardens often have an experimental or provisional character. However, experience has shown that temporary solutions can be quite durable.
  • There are also increasing numbers of private gardens which, for professional, financial or other reasons, are only temporary and provisional from the outset. A well-known example is allotment gardens on land to be built . This can have various effects: Since there is no time to let it grow, rolling lawns and large plants may be used that do not grow freely in the ground, but in mobile planters so that they can be removed again at a later point in time. Or the garden is not designed in a sophisticated way, but only makeshift with inexpensive, less durable materials.
  • In a broader sense, exhibition gardens (e.g. at horticultural exhibitions or a garden fair), changing show gardens of garden centers or garden centers, are transitory gardens.

In contrast to seasonally changing planting (technical term "mobile green" ) are transitory gardens

  • either just a one-time, non-recurring action,
  • or are laid out more or less regularly, but then in a completely different shape or in a different location.

In contrast to transitory gardens, land art is the artistic processing of an existing garden or landscape.

The literally temporary nature of transitory greens creates links to strolling ( promenadology ) and other transitory arts, such as B. Theater . In the latter, the transitory character is even stronger, since the work has already disappeared at the moment of its completion and can no longer be produced.

Examples of transitory gardens

Federal Republic of Germany

Switzerland

literature

  • Florian Haydn, Robert Temel (Ed.): Temporary spaces - concepts for city use. Birkhäuser 2006, ISBN 3-7643-7459-4 .
  • Christa Kamleithner, Rudolf Kohoutek: Temporary Uses, Deregulation and Urbanity. In: Dérive - Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung , No. 14, pp. 12–15, 2004.
  • Margit Schild: Disappearing. Temporary installations in landscape and open space planning. A contribution to discussion . Contributions to spatial planning, issue 79, series of publications by the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Hanover, Hanover 2005.
  • Margit Schild: Forms of Disappearance. On the “essence” of intentionally limited projects , in: POLIS, 2/2004, 16th year, pp. 22-25.
  • Margit Schild: SET-OST. Temporary installations on the former Expo site , in: Stadt und Grün No. 12, pp. 22–25, 2002.
  • Bertram Weisshaar: Transitional Gardens. Garden experiments in the lignite opencast mine Golpa-Nord , Institut f. Urban and landscape planning of the comprehensive university Kassel, reports A122, 1997, ISBN 3-89117-097-1 .
  • René Reinhardt , Antje Oegel (eds.), Thomas Schulze (photos): The millennium field - a realized utopia. The book on the cornfield in the middle of the city - supplemented by notes from the project diary. (A project of the Schaubühne Lindenfels ), E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-910166-47-9 .

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