ake-do
Garden City is informed by two key texts: Huang Zhouxing’s
1674 fictive essay
Record of the Make-do Garden
as interpreted by Stanislaus Fung, and Tony Fry’s
Design Futuring (2009). Fung argues that fictional
gardens such as Huang’s are not just idealised places
that ‘guide our efforts towards a better future beyond
our concrete and less-then-perfect world’ but rather
a complex to-and-fro space of historical thinking*. It is
through a similar ‘shuttling’ between lived
realities and imaginary worlds that
Make-do Garden City
hopes to arrive at a place of Sustainment in the here and
now.
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you visit please
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Follow its progress at
Makeshift
Journal
* Stanislaus
Fung ‘Notes on the Make-do Garden’, in Utopian
Studies Vol. 9 no. 1, 1998, pp. 142-8.