GARDENING AND GRAPHIC DESIGN:

DISCOVERING HOW TO CREATE, WORK AND LIVE SUSTAINABLY AS A FAMILY THROUGH GARDENING AND GRAPHIC DESIGN.

Designed experiences have the power to radically shift how we view ourselves, how we live, work and engage the world around us. Through urban gardening and graphic design experiences like games and puzzles, a family can discover the importance of sustainability and see first hand how small changes can yield dramatic results. Taking time for reflection is an important step in trying to understand what we have lost in our fast paced consumer driven culture. Aesthetic experiences can provide a sacred space that encourages both reflection and conversation. Collaboration in both personal and professional lives can lead to deeper engagement in the creative process and result in the creation of experiences that can move others to find resonance in sustainability.

Aesthetic experiences can promote reflection by inviting us into a sacred space where we can be still. Learning to value sustainability is a natural outgrowth of connecting to nature. Small acts like planting a raspberry vine can lead to profound shifts of awareness that can bring one’s outward design practice into parallel with one’s inner voice.

Discovering what resonates deep within yourself can be known in an instant and yet take a lifetime to understand. Society needs to shift how we view sustainability as well as confront our unsustainable economic activity. Planting a seed in the ground is both an act of faith in nature and a vote for the future. By being still we can allow the sacred space of nature to resonate deep within us as a light illuminates the way forward.