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Spatial Politics: a Garden

Contract Design Center
San Francisco, California
1994

Group collaborative installation with Janice Sandeen, Susan Leibovitz Steinman, and Andrée Singer Thompson.

Young girl descends step of tower
Aerial view: tower, troughs, circular garden bed, stacked shopping carts, and snaking chairs.
Floor view: tower, troughs, circular garden bed, stacked shopping carts, and snaking chairs.
Detail: troughs with gravel and blooming paper whites
Paper with quote on window.
Buildings protect us from the conditions of the outside world by creating their own reality.
Aerial view: zig zag troughs, round garden bed, snaking chairs, and wall of doors at the back
Aerial detail: wall of doors, small platform, house structures.
Long quote from Robert Sommer's Personal Space: the Behavioral Basis of Design
Good design becomes a meaningless tautology if we consider that (humankind) will be reshaped to fit whatever environment (it) creates. The long-range question is not so much what sort of environment we want, but what sort of (person) we want.

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Jeff Rosenfeld, Weatherwise, “Sculpture: Facing the Elements,” December, 1995/January, 1996.