Is Japan still a place where gardens are understood as deeply spiritual, philosophical and aesthetic practice — far more than horticulture? This session brings together Dan Pearson, one of the UK’s foremost landscape designers who has worked extensively in Japan on projects including the Tokachi Millennium Forest, and Haruko Seki, a multi-award-winning Japanese designer based in London whose gardens express a sensibility of impermanence and quietness.
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This series, chaired and curated by landscape historian and critic Tim Richardson, aims to broaden our ideas of what gardens, landscape and place can mean in the context of artistic practice in an era of climate change. Across five evenings, Tim has invited a range of practitioners, curators and academics to discuss their own work and to reflect on the broader scene. Each evening will close with a period of socialising (a drink is included in the price of the ticket) so that the discussion can continue. Book for all five evenings at a reduced price here.
Please note that our talks now begin at 6:30pm, rather than 7pm, giving you more time to enjoy dinner at our award-winning Garden Museum Café. Table reservations are available here. Your talk ticket also includes entry to the Garden Museum’s temporary exhibitions from 6pm on the evening of the talk.
