Delighted to have attended the opening of ‘EDEN’, designed by HagenHinderdael in partnership with Grosvenor Britain & Ireland and Artistic Statements. EDEN, is an installation, at Halkin Arcade in Belgravia, that invites people to interact planting seeds or just relax and heal.
The installation, which peacefully blends in with its surroundings, fosters the importance of natural urban green spaces through an interactive experience accessible for anyone. With an emphasis on wellbeing, community, and sustainability EDEN brings awareness to the fact that we need to restore our relationship with nature as our support system. The installation has been made with reclaimed timber and all its elements will be distributed and re-purposed ensuring an eco-friendly afterlife.
As HagenHinderdael says, ‘Healthy natural environments are our support system, reducing the rates of physical and emotional illnesses and strengthening our body’s defence. Human preferences toward things in nature, while refined through experience and culture, are largely the product of biological evolution. A vigorous and diverse natural environment has a direct impact on our very own health, but in order to be regenerated by nature we need to reconnect and make an effort to nourish it in return.
By creating a natural micro-ecosystem, EDEN emphasises the most low-tech, sustainable and possibly the most effective thing we can do to contribute to a healthy environment and life: Plant Seeds.’
EDEN will be up from the 4th September - 31st October 2020. More information here
EDEN: THE TEAM
HagenHinderdael, Sofia Hagen & Lisa Hinderdael - Installation Design / Creative Direction Artistic Statements, Zoë Allen - Art Consultant / Project Director
The Grosvenor Group - Partner
OOO, Out of Order Design - Fabrication Studio
CLGC, Central London Garden Company - Horticulturists and Plant Suppliers Solowood Recycling - Reclaimed Timber Suppliers
Image courtesy of HagenHinderdael
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