About
Global Urban Garden Network = GUGN
There are no cities.
There is no urban-nature-interface.
There are only urban parks.
There is grey, there is green.
Every urban area is Nature, made of living things.
A Garden is a space for Humans to appreciate themselves as Nature.
The City is a Garden, the Garden is a Universe.
Gardens help Humans grow.
Nature-based Solutions are the key for humans to survive themselves.
Humans must help Gardens grow to help Humans grow.
The Global Urban Garden Network (GUGN) is a participatory design network that connects and fosters the growth of urban gardens around the world. GUGN asks humans and other species what forms of Nature urban communities need, and works with them to co-create Nature-based Solutions. GUGN works collaboratively to transform grey to green, cities to gardens.
To do this, GUGN listens to gardens, and helps gardens listen to each other. GUGN looks at gardens, and helps gardens look at each other. GUGN listens and looks at humans and all species to help build and regenerate their habitats. GUGN is its network, and it encourages others to ask questions, listen, design, grow and broadcast their gardens around the world.
The GUGN will premiere the world’s first live-stream multi-garden broadcast at the Venice Biennale in 2025. The ongoing live-stream features gardens in San Jose, Costa Rica; Los Angeles, California; and Venice, Italy with live sound generated by each garden’s Epiphytic Music System (EMS). The EMS senses electricity flowing through a plant’s leaves, translating the constantly shifting moods of that plant into an ever-changing, co-created music composition, designed to aid plant and garden growth. In the GUGN broadcast, plants become a collaborative performing artist, generating beneficial tones and musical decisions, helping themselves grow, and therefore humans thrive, in a virtuous cycle.
To help everyone create urban gardens, GUGN is launching a series of plantable seed-postcards, where plants share their feelings and ideas. Mail a seed-postcard to another gardener or plant it yourself to grow your own and share your garden.
To learn more, watch our streaming live-garden broadcasts, or get in touch, please visit us at GUGN.EARTH
Bio:
The Global Urban Garden Network (GUGN) was initiated by A-01 (Costa Rica / Netherlands), Make_Good_Design (NYC and LA) and NoNo Studio (LA, NYC & CDMX). GUGN uses Nature-based Solutions to co-create built environments, experience designs, systems and objects that help humans and other species thrive.
Published @ April 17, 2025 8:17 am