The Kids Get Out of The Picture at the GSD

Location
Cambridge, MA

Year
2016

Status
Complete

Project Lead
Alexander Porter
Morgan Starkey

Project Team
Anthony Chu
Collin Cobia
Evan Farley
James Moffet
James Murray
Jonathan Rieke
Zahra Safervedi

Photos courtsey of Justin Knight and the Harvard GSD

“The Kid Gets out of the Picture” is an installation of a contemporary English picturesque garden set inside the Loeb Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Exploring William Gilpin’s picturesque travel sketches from the late eighteenth century, the LADG appropriated the organizational logic of his drawings, which frequently depict dense, heterogeneous collections of rocks and plants. These “clumps” congeal together as a single entity regardless of the diversity of their constituent parts, creating a material landscape that is both continuously variable and continuously navigable.

The installation was made in collaboration with Materials & Applications, First Office, Hirsuta, and Laurel Broughton / Andrew Kovacs. The project was made possible in part by the generous support of the Graham Foundation.