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BY KALPANA ARIAS AND NOWADAYS
A garden is a place for play and technicolour imagination bringing pep and zing to an ever-greying world. Now, as we move towards an increasing cyberworld, artificial intelligence and augmented-reality has the potential to democratise our connection to plants: how we grow flowers or vegetables, who has access to green spaces, and who designs gardens. The use of technology in gardens has a wide application including water efficient crop production, robot mowers that can ‘learn’ your lawn, plant recognition apps, and tools for new design solutions to major challenges like the increasing climate emergency, unnatural disasters, the rise of inequality, and the collapsing social care system. To build a different future we need better design.
Can gardeners shape the future? They can and often do. Designing a garden is an exercise of imagination, gestating speculation of different possibilities that call to action green fingered vigilantees. But imagining (or dreaming) is a decentralised system built on symbiosis– a multispecies collaborative process and a bottom-up approach to building an interconnected network of imaginal exchange through shared possibilities. In 2023, the Oneiric Soils: Dreaming with Plants residency brought this model together through a new blueprint to imagine the future: glitch, a cybergardening tool and a grow-to-play version of guerrilla gardening that is inclusive, gamified, and ready for a new generation of dreamers.
Whether you are holding a trowel or gardening gloves ready to look after your tomato plant or scrolling through your phone, knee-deep in digital wormholes, the world of cybergardening can offer a place to dream and play. From growing pixel plants and archival data sets to building your green corner on the internet, gardening is coming online..and off.
Let’s glitch.
glitch is a hands-on way of making gardening accessible and fun. The platform is levelling up a new wave of gardeners to future-proof cities, scaling urban growing and building nature skills and networks to bring communities together. glitch is a cyberbug space hacking local streets and growing open-access gardens using AI, machine learning algorithms, AR and LiDAR scanning. As the user chats with glitch, the inputs add to a database that programs a garden based on the user’s answers, and local biodiversity.
glitch showcases how gardens and trans-species design can shape a greener, more imaginative world, from building groundbreaking local gardens to innovative design practices, designing with plants helps to address today’s challenges like food insecurity and future-proofing cities.
What will the future look like if we design with plants? While Reddit threads encourage online users to log off and ‘touch some grass’ and leave the cyberworld for leafier, greener spaces, glitch invites users to enter into a design partnership with more-than-human worlds to grow a range of edible, floral and fictional AR plants online and offline as part of a world-building game.
Cybergardening can cultivate public imagination and build the future we want. Will you help grow it?
* glitch is a project presented by Nowadays, with design and artistic direction by Pitch Studios and learning partner Earthed Charity.
glitch programs a testing field based on your garden results to trial. The next step is planting. Our learning partners give users the nature skills they need to turn their garden from virtual to real. Help us grow our database, glitch is now in beta go to bugg0.io or scan the QR code and click glitch.
A garden is a place for play and technicolour imagination bringing pep and zing to an ever-greying world. Now, as we move towards an increasing cyberworld, artificial intelligence and augmented-reality has the potential to democratise our connection to plants: how we grow flowers or vegetables, who has access to green spaces, and who designs gardens. The use of technology in gardens has a wide application including water efficient crop production, robot mowers that can ‘learn’ your lawn, plant recognition apps, and tools for new design solutions to major challenges like the increasing climate emergency, unnatural disasters, the rise of inequality, and the collapsing social care system. To build a different future we need better design.
Can gardeners shape the future? They can and often do. Designing a garden is an exercise of imagination, gestating speculation of different possibilities that call to action green fingered vigilantees. But imagining (or dreaming) is a decentralised system built on symbiosis– a multispecies collaborative process and a bottom-up approach to building an interconnected network of imaginal exchange through shared possibilities. In 2023, the Oneiric Soils: Dreaming with Plants residency brought this model together through a new blueprint to imagine the future: glitch, a cybergardening tool and a grow-to-play version of guerrilla gardening that is inclusive, gamified, and ready for a new generation of dreamers.
Whether you are holding a trowel or gardening gloves ready to look after your tomato plant or scrolling through your phone, knee-deep in digital wormholes, the world of cybergardening can offer a place to dream and play. From growing pixel plants and archival data sets to building your green corner on the internet, gardening is coming online..and off.
Let’s glitch.
glitch is a hands-on way of making gardening accessible and fun. The platform is levelling up a new wave of gardeners to future-proof cities, scaling urban growing and building nature skills and networks to bring communities together. glitch is a cyberbug space hacking local streets and growing open-access gardens using AI, machine learning algorithms, AR and LiDAR scanning. As the user chats with glitch, the inputs add to a database that programs a garden based on the user’s answers, and local biodiversity.
glitch showcases how gardens and trans-species design can shape a greener, more imaginative world, from building groundbreaking local gardens to innovative design practices, designing with plants helps to address today’s challenges like food insecurity and future-proofing cities.
What will the future look like if we design with plants? While Reddit threads encourage online users to log off and ‘touch some grass’ and leave the cyberworld for leafier, greener spaces, glitch invites users to enter into a design partnership with more-than-human worlds to grow a range of edible, floral and fictional AR plants online and offline as part of a world-building game.
Cybergardening can cultivate public imagination and build the future we want. Will you help grow it?
* glitch is a project presented by Nowadays, with design and artistic direction by Pitch Studios and learning partner Earthed Charity.
glitch programs a testing field based on your garden results to trial. The next step is planting. Our learning partners give users the nature skills they need to turn their garden from virtual to real. Help us grow our database, glitch is now in beta go to bugg0.io or scan the QR code and click glitch.
Kalpana Arias is a guerrilla gardener, technologist, urban greening activist and food grower, writer, speaker and the founder of Nowadays, a social enterprise fighting for urban nature. Alongside Nowadays, Kalpana campaigns for the right to grow and nature rights through urban gardening projects and tech policy reforms. She is an environmental consultant for corporations and governments and works with leading charities, institutions, brands and grassroots change-makers.
BY KALPANA ARIAS AND NOWADAYS
A garden is a place for play and technicolour imagination bringing pep and zing to an ever-greying world. Now, as we move towards an increasing cyberworld, artificial intelligence and augmented-reality has the potential to democratise our connection to plants: how we grow flowers or vegetables, who has access to green spaces, and who designs gardens. The use of technology in gardens has a wide application including water efficient crop production, robot mowers that can ‘learn’ your lawn, plant recognition apps, and tools for new design solutions to major challenges like the increasing climate emergency, unnatural disasters, the rise of inequality, and the collapsing social care system. To build a different future we need better design.
Can gardeners shape the future? They can and often do. Designing a garden is an exercise of imagination, gestating speculation of different possibilities that call to action green fingered vigilantees. But imagining (or dreaming) is a decentralised system built on symbiosis– a multispecies collaborative process and a bottom-up approach to building an interconnected network of imaginal exchange through shared possibilities. In 2023, the Oneiric Soils: Dreaming with Plants residency brought this model together through a new blueprint to imagine the future: glitch, a cybergardening tool and a grow-to-play version of guerrilla gardening that is inclusive, gamified, and ready for a new generation of dreamers.
Whether you are holding a trowel or gardening gloves ready to look after your tomato plant or scrolling through your phone, knee-deep in digital wormholes, the world of cybergardening can offer a place to dream and play. From growing pixel plants and archival data sets to building your green corner on the internet, gardening is coming online..and off.
Let’s glitch.
glitch is a hands-on way of making gardening accessible and fun. The platform is levelling up a new wave of gardeners to future-proof cities, scaling urban growing and building nature skills and networks to bring communities together. glitch is a cyberbug space hacking local streets and growing open-access gardens using AI, machine learning algorithms, AR and LiDAR scanning. As the user chats with glitch, the inputs add to a database that programs a garden based on the user’s answers, and local biodiversity.
glitch showcases how gardens and trans-species design can shape a greener, more imaginative world, from building groundbreaking local gardens to innovative design practices, designing with plants helps to address today’s challenges like food insecurity and future-proofing cities.
What will the future look like if we design with plants? While Reddit threads encourage online users to log off and ‘touch some grass’ and leave the cyberworld for leafier, greener spaces, glitch invites users to enter into a design partnership with more-than-human worlds to grow a range of edible, floral and fictional AR plants online and offline as part of a world-building game.
Cybergardening can cultivate public imagination and build the future we want. Will you help grow it?
* glitch is a project presented by Nowadays, with design and artistic direction by Pitch Studios and learning partner Earthed Charity.
glitch programs a testing field based on your garden results to trial. The next step is planting. Our learning partners give users the nature skills they need to turn their garden from virtual to real. Help us grow our database, glitch is now in beta go to bugg0.io or scan the QR code and click glitch.
A garden is a place for play and technicolour imagination bringing pep and zing to an ever-greying world. Now, as we move towards an increasing cyberworld, artificial intelligence and augmented-reality has the potential to democratise our connection to plants: how we grow flowers or vegetables, who has access to green spaces, and who designs gardens. The use of technology in gardens has a wide application including water efficient crop production, robot mowers that can ‘learn’ your lawn, plant recognition apps, and tools for new design solutions to major challenges like the increasing climate emergency, unnatural disasters, the rise of inequality, and the collapsing social care system. To build a different future we need better design.
Can gardeners shape the future? They can and often do. Designing a garden is an exercise of imagination, gestating speculation of different possibilities that call to action green fingered vigilantees. But imagining (or dreaming) is a decentralised system built on symbiosis– a multispecies collaborative process and a bottom-up approach to building an interconnected network of imaginal exchange through shared possibilities. In 2023, the Oneiric Soils: Dreaming with Plants residency brought this model together through a new blueprint to imagine the future: glitch, a cybergardening tool and a grow-to-play version of guerrilla gardening that is inclusive, gamified, and ready for a new generation of dreamers.
Whether you are holding a trowel or gardening gloves ready to look after your tomato plant or scrolling through your phone, knee-deep in digital wormholes, the world of cybergardening can offer a place to dream and play. From growing pixel plants and archival data sets to building your green corner on the internet, gardening is coming online..and off.
Let’s glitch.
glitch is a hands-on way of making gardening accessible and fun. The platform is levelling up a new wave of gardeners to future-proof cities, scaling urban growing and building nature skills and networks to bring communities together. glitch is a cyberbug space hacking local streets and growing open-access gardens using AI, machine learning algorithms, AR and LiDAR scanning. As the user chats with glitch, the inputs add to a database that programs a garden based on the user’s answers, and local biodiversity.
glitch showcases how gardens and trans-species design can shape a greener, more imaginative world, from building groundbreaking local gardens to innovative design practices, designing with plants helps to address today’s challenges like food insecurity and future-proofing cities.
What will the future look like if we design with plants? While Reddit threads encourage online users to log off and ‘touch some grass’ and leave the cyberworld for leafier, greener spaces, glitch invites users to enter into a design partnership with more-than-human worlds to grow a range of edible, floral and fictional AR plants online and offline as part of a world-building game.
Cybergardening can cultivate public imagination and build the future we want. Will you help grow it?
* glitch is a project presented by Nowadays, with design and artistic direction by Pitch Studios and learning partner Earthed Charity.
glitch programs a testing field based on your garden results to trial. The next step is planting. Our learning partners give users the nature skills they need to turn their garden from virtual to real. Help us grow our database, glitch is now in beta go to bugg0.io or scan the QR code and click glitch.
Kalpana Arias is a guerrilla gardener, technologist, urban greening activist and food grower, writer, speaker and the founder of Nowadays, a social enterprise fighting for urban nature. Alongside Nowadays, Kalpana campaigns for the right to grow and nature rights through urban gardening projects and tech policy reforms. She is an environmental consultant for corporations and governments and works with leading charities, institutions, brands and grassroots change-makers.
BY KALPANA ARIAS AND NOWADAYS
A garden is a place for play and technicolour imagination bringing pep and zing to an ever-greying world. Now, as we move towards an increasing cyberworld, artificial intelligence and augmented-reality has the potential to democratise our connection to plants: how we grow flowers or vegetables, who has access to green spaces, and who designs gardens. The use of technology in gardens has a wide application including water efficient crop production, robot mowers that can ‘learn’ your lawn, plant recognition apps, and tools for new design solutions to major challenges like the increasing climate emergency, unnatural disasters, the rise of inequality, and the collapsing social care system. To build a different future we need better design.
Can gardeners shape the future? They can and often do. Designing a garden is an exercise of imagination, gestating speculation of different possibilities that call to action green fingered vigilantees. But imagining (or dreaming) is a decentralised system built on symbiosis– a multispecies collaborative process and a bottom-up approach to building an interconnected network of imaginal exchange through shared possibilities. In 2023, the Oneiric Soils: Dreaming with Plants residency brought this model together through a new blueprint to imagine the future: glitch, a cybergardening tool and a grow-to-play version of guerrilla gardening that is inclusive, gamified, and ready for a new generation of dreamers.
Whether you are holding a trowel or gardening gloves ready to look after your tomato plant or scrolling through your phone, knee-deep in digital wormholes, the world of cybergardening can offer a place to dream and play. From growing pixel plants and archival data sets to building your green corner on the internet, gardening is coming online..and off.
Let’s glitch.
glitch is a hands-on way of making gardening accessible and fun. The platform is levelling up a new wave of gardeners to future-proof cities, scaling urban growing and building nature skills and networks to bring communities together. glitch is a cyberbug space hacking local streets and growing open-access gardens using AI, machine learning algorithms, AR and LiDAR scanning. As the user chats with glitch, the inputs add to a database that programs a garden based on the user’s answers, and local biodiversity.
glitch showcases how gardens and trans-species design can shape a greener, more imaginative world, from building groundbreaking local gardens to innovative design practices, designing with plants helps to address today’s challenges like food insecurity and future-proofing cities.
What will the future look like if we design with plants? While Reddit threads encourage online users to log off and ‘touch some grass’ and leave the cyberworld for leafier, greener spaces, glitch invites users to enter into a design partnership with more-than-human worlds to grow a range of edible, floral and fictional AR plants online and offline as part of a world-building game.
Cybergardening can cultivate public imagination and build the future we want. Will you help grow it?
* glitch is a project presented by Nowadays, with design and artistic direction by Pitch Studios and learning partner Earthed Charity.
glitch programs a testing field based on your garden results to trial. The next step is planting. Our learning partners give users the nature skills they need to turn their garden from virtual to real. Help us grow our database, glitch is now in beta go to bugg0.io or scan the QR code and click glitch.
A garden is a place for play and technicolour imagination bringing pep and zing to an ever-greying world. Now, as we move towards an increasing cyberworld, artificial intelligence and augmented-reality has the potential to democratise our connection to plants: how we grow flowers or vegetables, who has access to green spaces, and who designs gardens. The use of technology in gardens has a wide application including water efficient crop production, robot mowers that can ‘learn’ your lawn, plant recognition apps, and tools for new design solutions to major challenges like the increasing climate emergency, unnatural disasters, the rise of inequality, and the collapsing social care system. To build a different future we need better design.
Can gardeners shape the future? They can and often do. Designing a garden is an exercise of imagination, gestating speculation of different possibilities that call to action green fingered vigilantees. But imagining (or dreaming) is a decentralised system built on symbiosis– a multispecies collaborative process and a bottom-up approach to building an interconnected network of imaginal exchange through shared possibilities. In 2023, the Oneiric Soils: Dreaming with Plants residency brought this model together through a new blueprint to imagine the future: glitch, a cybergardening tool and a grow-to-play version of guerrilla gardening that is inclusive, gamified, and ready for a new generation of dreamers.
Whether you are holding a trowel or gardening gloves ready to look after your tomato plant or scrolling through your phone, knee-deep in digital wormholes, the world of cybergardening can offer a place to dream and play. From growing pixel plants and archival data sets to building your green corner on the internet, gardening is coming online..and off.
Let’s glitch.
glitch is a hands-on way of making gardening accessible and fun. The platform is levelling up a new wave of gardeners to future-proof cities, scaling urban growing and building nature skills and networks to bring communities together. glitch is a cyberbug space hacking local streets and growing open-access gardens using AI, machine learning algorithms, AR and LiDAR scanning. As the user chats with glitch, the inputs add to a database that programs a garden based on the user’s answers, and local biodiversity.
glitch showcases how gardens and trans-species design can shape a greener, more imaginative world, from building groundbreaking local gardens to innovative design practices, designing with plants helps to address today’s challenges like food insecurity and future-proofing cities.
What will the future look like if we design with plants? While Reddit threads encourage online users to log off and ‘touch some grass’ and leave the cyberworld for leafier, greener spaces, glitch invites users to enter into a design partnership with more-than-human worlds to grow a range of edible, floral and fictional AR plants online and offline as part of a world-building game.
Cybergardening can cultivate public imagination and build the future we want. Will you help grow it?
* glitch is a project presented by Nowadays, with design and artistic direction by Pitch Studios and learning partner Earthed Charity.
glitch programs a testing field based on your garden results to trial. The next step is planting. Our learning partners give users the nature skills they need to turn their garden from virtual to real. Help us grow our database, glitch is now in beta go to bugg0.io or scan the QR code and click glitch.
Kalpana Arias is a guerrilla gardener, technologist, urban greening activist and food grower, writer, speaker and the founder of Nowadays, a social enterprise fighting for urban nature. Alongside Nowadays, Kalpana campaigns for the right to grow and nature rights through urban gardening projects and tech policy reforms. She is an environmental consultant for corporations and governments and works with leading charities, institutions, brands and grassroots change-makers.
BY KALPANA ARIAS AND NOWADAYS
A garden is a place for play and technicolour imagination bringing pep and zing to an ever-greying world. Now, as we move towards an increasing cyberworld, artificial intelligence and augmented-reality has the potential to democratise our connection to plants: how we grow flowers or vegetables, who has access to green spaces, and who designs gardens. The use of technology in gardens has a wide application including water efficient crop production, robot mowers that can ‘learn’ your lawn, plant recognition apps, and tools for new design solutions to major challenges like the increasing climate emergency, unnatural disasters, the rise of inequality, and the collapsing social care system. To build a different future we need better design.
Can gardeners shape the future? They can and often do. Designing a garden is an exercise of imagination, gestating speculation of different possibilities that call to action green fingered vigilantees. But imagining (or dreaming) is a decentralised system built on symbiosis– a multispecies collaborative process and a bottom-up approach to building an interconnected network of imaginal exchange through shared possibilities. In 2023, the Oneiric Soils: Dreaming with Plants residency brought this model together through a new blueprint to imagine the future: glitch, a cybergardening tool and a grow-to-play version of guerrilla gardening that is inclusive, gamified, and ready for a new generation of dreamers.
Whether you are holding a trowel or gardening gloves ready to look after your tomato plant or scrolling through your phone, knee-deep in digital wormholes, the world of cybergardening can offer a place to dream and play. From growing pixel plants and archival data sets to building your green corner on the internet, gardening is coming online..and off.
Let’s glitch.
glitch is a hands-on way of making gardening accessible and fun. The platform is levelling up a new wave of gardeners to future-proof cities, scaling urban growing and building nature skills and networks to bring communities together. glitch is a cyberbug space hacking local streets and growing open-access gardens using AI, machine learning algorithms, AR and LiDAR scanning. As the user chats with glitch, the inputs add to a database that programs a garden based on the user’s answers, and local biodiversity.
glitch showcases how gardens and trans-species design can shape a greener, more imaginative world, from building groundbreaking local gardens to innovative design practices, designing with plants helps to address today’s challenges like food insecurity and future-proofing cities.
What will the future look like if we design with plants? While Reddit threads encourage online users to log off and ‘touch some grass’ and leave the cyberworld for leafier, greener spaces, glitch invites users to enter into a design partnership with more-than-human worlds to grow a range of edible, floral and fictional AR plants online and offline as part of a world-building game.
Cybergardening can cultivate public imagination and build the future we want. Will you help grow it?
* glitch is a project presented by Nowadays, with design and artistic direction by Pitch Studios and learning partner Earthed Charity.
glitch programs a testing field based on your garden results to trial. The next step is planting. Our learning partners give users the nature skills they need to turn their garden from virtual to real. Help us grow our database, glitch is now in beta go to bugg0.io or scan the QR code and click glitch.
A garden is a place for play and technicolour imagination bringing pep and zing to an ever-greying world. Now, as we move towards an increasing cyberworld, artificial intelligence and augmented-reality has the potential to democratise our connection to plants: how we grow flowers or vegetables, who has access to green spaces, and who designs gardens. The use of technology in gardens has a wide application including water efficient crop production, robot mowers that can ‘learn’ your lawn, plant recognition apps, and tools for new design solutions to major challenges like the increasing climate emergency, unnatural disasters, the rise of inequality, and the collapsing social care system. To build a different future we need better design.
Can gardeners shape the future? They can and often do. Designing a garden is an exercise of imagination, gestating speculation of different possibilities that call to action green fingered vigilantees. But imagining (or dreaming) is a decentralised system built on symbiosis– a multispecies collaborative process and a bottom-up approach to building an interconnected network of imaginal exchange through shared possibilities. In 2023, the Oneiric Soils: Dreaming with Plants residency brought this model together through a new blueprint to imagine the future: glitch, a cybergardening tool and a grow-to-play version of guerrilla gardening that is inclusive, gamified, and ready for a new generation of dreamers.
Whether you are holding a trowel or gardening gloves ready to look after your tomato plant or scrolling through your phone, knee-deep in digital wormholes, the world of cybergardening can offer a place to dream and play. From growing pixel plants and archival data sets to building your green corner on the internet, gardening is coming online..and off.
Let’s glitch.
glitch is a hands-on way of making gardening accessible and fun. The platform is levelling up a new wave of gardeners to future-proof cities, scaling urban growing and building nature skills and networks to bring communities together. glitch is a cyberbug space hacking local streets and growing open-access gardens using AI, machine learning algorithms, AR and LiDAR scanning. As the user chats with glitch, the inputs add to a database that programs a garden based on the user’s answers, and local biodiversity.
glitch showcases how gardens and trans-species design can shape a greener, more imaginative world, from building groundbreaking local gardens to innovative design practices, designing with plants helps to address today’s challenges like food insecurity and future-proofing cities.
What will the future look like if we design with plants? While Reddit threads encourage online users to log off and ‘touch some grass’ and leave the cyberworld for leafier, greener spaces, glitch invites users to enter into a design partnership with more-than-human worlds to grow a range of edible, floral and fictional AR plants online and offline as part of a world-building game.
Cybergardening can cultivate public imagination and build the future we want. Will you help grow it?
* glitch is a project presented by Nowadays, with design and artistic direction by Pitch Studios and learning partner Earthed Charity.
glitch programs a testing field based on your garden results to trial. The next step is planting. Our learning partners give users the nature skills they need to turn their garden from virtual to real. Help us grow our database, glitch is now in beta go to bugg0.io or scan the QR code and click glitch.
Kalpana Arias is a guerrilla gardener, technologist, urban greening activist and food grower, writer, speaker and the founder of Nowadays, a social enterprise fighting for urban nature. Alongside Nowadays, Kalpana campaigns for the right to grow and nature rights through urban gardening projects and tech policy reforms. She is an environmental consultant for corporations and governments and works with leading charities, institutions, brands and grassroots change-makers.