Archive: 'The City is a Garden' with Anna Aslaug, Skye Jin and Studio Coquille

Urban infrastructure does merely mean roads, pipes, and buildings. Soil, water flows, trees, and fungi are infrastructure too.

This episode moves away from the idea that gardens belong at the edges of development or appear afterward as cosmetic additions. Instead, it asks whether the city itself can be understood as a form of cultivation: something living, maintained, and ecologically embedded rather than engineered into independence. 

For what if the city is not separate from the landscape around it, but continuous with it, dependent on living systems that modern planning often treats as background or decoration? And how might we question the belief that sustainability will come mainly through smarter technologies and greater efficiency, rather than through practices of ecological reciprocity?

 

On the episode you will meet:

Anna Aslaug Lund: architect and landscape architect MAA, Ph.D. at Schønherr, and author of The City as a Garden.

Skye Jin: artist, educator, permaculture designer, and cultural sustainability advisor.

Studio Coquille: Marion de Lingua de St Blanquat and Frederik Mads Svendsen, the architects behind The Habitable Skin, together with TERROIR, in collaboration with Lasse Carlsen and MYCO.