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Hybrids

Edited by Lesley Johnstone, Artistic Director of the Festival, and including texts by twenty-two designers who have participated in the International Garden Festival since 2000.

What is a garden? This apparently simple question is the focus of Hybrids: Reshaping the
Contemporary Garden in Métis that introduces over forty gardens created at the International
Garden Festival since 2000. From the provocative and surprising to the playful and insightful,
these spectacular projects have contributed to making the Festival at the Jardins de Métis an
internationally known tourist and design destination.

The contemporary garden is a hybrid that draws as much on art and architecture, urban
and industrial design, popular culture, and new technologies as on the history and art of the
garden. Challenging commonly held assumptions about what a garden is, or can be, this book presents imaginative temporary works created by landscape architects, architects, and visual artists from Europe, the United States, Australia, Morocco, Quebec, and other regions of Canada.

Hybrids offers readers a portrait of contemporary thinking on issues related to the renewal
of the art of the garden, as well as on our relationship to the physical world and the myriad ways
we affect our environment.

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