SEEDING THE GARDEN
Image courtesy of Harun Morrison and Paul Granjon
Seeding the Garden (2022) by Dr Anna Colin initiated research into how the Art Research Garden is situated within a network of green spaces across Lewisham and art research gardens internationally. It included the commissioning of a functional artwork in the Art Research Garden by Harun Morrison and Paul Granjon.
Artists Harun Morrison and Paul Granjon were commissioned to design a composting system that they conceived as a Singing Compost, embedded with microphones and microbial batteries to translate the sounds of the decomposition of garden waste into soil.
Seeding the Garden culminated in a report compiled with research assistance by Fatima Alaiwat, Olivia Middelboe and Borbála Soós that surveyed a range of research garden models and study practical considerations for the implementation of an accessible garden and facility through interviews with local authority officials, artistic directors, horticulturalists and community gardeners.
Read the project report (PDF).
Photographs taken by Jess Potter, Urte Janus and Anna Colin