OBJECTIVES

 To build up a personal project of garden
 To be able to convey one’s skills of observation of the different sites
 To be able to carry out a documentary research (visual arts, literature, gardens, etc.) and reproduce it through different ways (pictures, words, graphics, photos, etc.)

 To pass from a written project to its planning and/or a garden scale model
 To make up the tools and the methodology to be used for this creation
 To approach the notion of colour : contrast, monochrome, palette.

COMPETENCES

 To master the techniques as regards the tools : a good knowledge of their and the materials’ usage
 To know and be able to use the colour in a vegetable environment : experimenting the emotional potentials of the colour and its structural and spatial possibilities
 To make up a project starting from the from the rules of a competition.

Alvaro de la Rosa Maura et Patricia Diaz Agrela ES. Festival des jardins de Chaumont sur Loire 2009.

MATERIALS

 Cardboard
 Materials collected from the ground : gravel, soil, twigs, dried leaves, sprigs, other objects, etc.
 Coloured papers, spray colours
 Glue, stapler, scissors, strings

DEVELOPMENT
 To present the rules of the yearly festival garden competition of Chaumont sur Loire. The participants are given an allotment of the same surface and work on a common subject
 To illustrate the presentation by visual means : images of the planning and scale models of the gardens created at Chaumont sur Loire particularly during the festival of 2009 entitled ‘Colour Gardens’, with a focus on the materials employed
 To get trainees aware of the unusual employment of certain materials in a garden such as plastic materials, rubber, mirrors, filters, etc.
 To show them that the majority of the projects today respond to the requirement of saving water, recycling materials, favouring durable energies and preserving the biodiversity
 To motivate a personal research on the theme of colours by means of : literary texts, works of art, visual and sensorial experiences, the material collected on the ground and selected in the classroom
 To draft the plan of the garden, give it a heading and draw the project in its general lines with the accompaniment of a list of materials
 To realise the plan of the garden starting from its general lines and using the different materials at disposal.

To finally ‘exhibit’ all the projects one next to the other as if they were juxtaposed parts of the gardens of Chaumont sur Loire. Each ‘creator’ will present his/her project in detail and describe its development. This will favour exchanges and comments among the participants on the multiple manners of ‘handling’ the colour in a garden.

 Models made by the students of Polo Val Boite High School, Cortina d’Ampezzo. Professor Antonio Ambrosino, sculpture.

 Photography : Annamaria Castellan, Acquamarina Association, Trieste.

EVALUATION

It will rest on the ability to :

 Experiment the colour, its expressive variations and multiple capacity in building a garden space
 Realize a landscape project and define its different meanings justifying the formal and chromatic choices
 Observe, comment and give reason for one’s own realization as well as the others’.

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Aline Rutily, Association Paysage et Patrimoine sans Frontière