LA CHRYSALIDE by landscape architects Gabriel Lacombe & Virginie Roy-Mazoyer,
Vancouver (British Colombia) & Montreal (Quebec) Canada
International Garden Festival 2017
- Announcement of the Designers
for its 18th Edition
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
T
he international call
for proposals invited
designers to create
"Playsages" in order
to inspire today’s young
that outdoor play is just as
interesting, if not more fun,
than on-screen amusement.
The 6 projects selected from
among the 162 proposals
38 Landscape & Urban Design
received from designers from
30 countries responded to
the invitation to re-think play
and take part in the global
discussion over nature-deficit
disorder.
The new gardens selected for
the 2017 edition are:
L’Escale by Collectif Escargo
[Pierre-Yves Diehl, designer,
Karyna St-Pierre, landscape
architect & Julie Parenteau, art
teacher], Montréal (Québec)
Canada. Small plots of land on
wheels, wagons for children, are
made available to be chosen,
adopted and brought along for
our visit of the Festival site.
www.collectifescargo.com
The Woodstock by Atelier
Yok-Yok [Steven Fuhrman,
Samson Lacoste & Luc Pinsard,