卢瓦尔河畔乔蒙特花园节
Chaumont-sur-Loire Garden Festival
MAAK space以“回到地球母亲”为主题进入了卢瓦尔河畔乔蒙特国际花园节2020版。艺术节是未来花园的实验室和观察站，创造了新的方式来参观和体验花园。在收到的400份建议书中，MAAK space被选为该艺术节25个花园之一，并获得了“Coup de Coeur”（评委会最喜欢的）奖，该花园旨在质疑我们与地球母亲的关系，欢迎我们来到“地球母亲眼中”的启蒙长廊。
MAAK space entered the Chaumont-sur-Loire international garden festival edition 2020 with the theme ‘’Back to Mother Earth’’. The festival is a laboratory and observatory for gardens in the future, inventing new ways to see and experience the garden. Among the 400 proposals received, MAAK space was selected to realize one of the 25 gardens of the festival, and received the ‘‘Coup de Coeur’’ (favourite of the jury) award with a garden designed to question our relationship to Mother Earth welcoming us to an initiatory promenade ‘’in the eyes of mother earth’’.
Nature is speaking
面对如此多的美丽，我们试图定义对自然和世界负责的力量。这就是地球母亲形象出现的地方，代表着无限的慷慨和不妥协。我们必须超越这种以自我为中心的观点，即土方工程是为了人类还是为了反人类，并重新获得我们的地位和谦卑，这样我们才能理解，这不是地球母亲在一边，人类在另一边，而是平衡，一个我们彼此分离的整体。
Faced with so much beauty, we seek to define the forces responsible for nature and the world. This is where the figure of Mother Earth appears, representing both infinite bounty and intransigence. We must move beyond this egocentric view, where earthworks for or against humanity, and regain our place and humility so we can understand that it is not a case of Mother Earth on one side and humans on the other, but rather of balance, a whole of which we are apart.
The Trees
这个花园提供了一个透过大自然母亲的眼睛，获得新视角的机会。这与宿命论相去甚远，宿命论认为人类依赖地球及其慷慨，但却揭示了它们的共生关系。茂密而无限的森林代表着繁茂，但也是最发达、最完整的植被。
This garden offers an opportunity to see through Mother Nature’s eyes and gain a new perspective. It is a long way from the fatalism that sees humanity as dependent on the earth and its generosity but rather reveals their symbiosis. The forest, thick and unlimited, represents lushness, but also the most developed and complete form of vegetation.
Reflection
穿过它，你到达中间的一个空隙，在那里你会发现一只眼睛。这就是我们希望找到问题答案的地方。这只眼睛代表着世界，提醒我们地球母亲是由整个人类和生态系统组成的，每个人都在其中发挥作用。天空也出现在这里，象征着我们良知的提升。我们的反思让我们回到现在，回到我们对世界的归属。
Passing through it, you reach a clearing in the middle where you will find an eye. This is where we hope to find the answer to our questions. This eye represents the world, reminding us that Mother Earth is made up of the whole of humanity and ecosystems where everyone plays a part. The sky also appears here, a symbol of the elevation of our conscience. Our reflection brings us back to the present and our belonging to the world.
Action
通过跨越花园、领地、国家和大陆的边界，实现行动的具体化。以鸟类和其他昆虫的方式，游客被邀请传播种子，以扩散这片森林，从而显示出对大自然母亲的价值。游客将可获得含有几粒桦树种子（先锋种，适应性极强，抗性极强）的可生物降解叶子，准备跨境传播。
The move to action is concretized by a crossing of borders of the garden, the domain, the country and the continent. In the manner of birds and other insects, the visitor is invited to spread seeds to diffuse this forest showing thus worthy to mother nature. Biodegradable leaves containing a few messages seeds of Betula pendula (pioneer species, extremely adaptable and resistant) will be available to visitors, ready to be spread across borders.
The main thing in there plan are the hundred Betula pendula (sponsored by Van den Berk tree nurseries). Underneath the Betula pendula there grows 2000 shady perennials in a layer of lava rock (according to a concept of Lageschaar Vaste Planten, besides sponsor of these plants).
Project Homepage on maak.space
Other designers involved in the design of landscape: Van den Berk Boomkwekerijen, Lageschaar Vaste Planten
Project location: Chaumont-sur-Loire international garden festival
Design year: 2019
Year Built: 2020
