Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

Client: MIFGS

Year: 2022

Overview: Through the Lens is a garden for everyone.

It is a fully accessible garden that celebrates the heightened sensory perception many children, and their carers experience each day living with Autism and sensory processing challenges. 

We have designed a garden to be immersed in, to learn and play through, to re-set the senses, and to develop a dialogue of opportunity for future inclusive spaces.

It is truly a garden for everyone that celebrates neurodiversity.

Using plant selection, floral display, poetry, topography and play, the garden will provide a series of spaces designed to reflect on the seven senses within a beautiful garden setting.

Through the Lens will provide education, a space of refuge and play, as well as a rich sensory celebration.

Through the Lens imagines a world where the opportunities of designing spaces with heightened sensory awareness will be of benefit to everyone, and that we have so much to learn from those who experience life with such depth and magnitude.

Gardens are such an amazing vehicle to provide social cohesion and interaction; this is our hope for Through the Lens.