Get Gayle to the Biennale

Gayle is an independent writer & garden designer selected by the New Zealand Institute of Architects to represent NZ at the Biennale in Venice as part of NZ's inaugural architecture exhibition, to launch her book Landscape & Urban Design for Health & Well-Being. The Biennale runs from June to November, attracting 1000's of visitors to the New Zealand exhibitions.

The theme of this year's Biennale is Fundamentals. Gayle's book is an ideal addition to the NZ exhibition as it shows gardens and greenspace as being fundamental to our health and well-being. The book is written as an academic text but is accessible to anyone with an interest in cost effective health and well-being. Her universal design principles lead us on a journey through the history of gardens as food for mind, body and soul, to contemporary landscape architecture and design as a luxury art form and to gardens and greenspace of the future as an effective intervention for health, education, welfare, social housing.

The text is being published by Routledge Press London, and simultaneously in New York and Toronto.

In the book she takes healing gardens & architectural design from a desirable art form, to become a necessary cost-effective mental and physical public health tool. Her award winning art is beautiful yet practical, and offers the health benefits of evidence based design.

The Biennale, as the global arts and architecture forum is a unique opportunity to launch the book on the world stage. During the opening 2 weeks there is opportunity to meet leading artists & architects, to challenge & be challenged, & to showcase how a NZ perspective interprets existing practice & research on the mental health benefits of gardens as healing artistic space.

It will cost approximately $6,000 to get there, including travel, taxes, accommodation, food & incidentals. Through Boosted you can help.