The Garden Marathon Brunch in London

Together with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Julia Peyton-Jones, DLD hosted the Garden Marathon Brunch in London at the Serpentine Gallery Marquee on Saturday, 15 October 2011. 

The Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon is the sixth in the Gallery’s acclaimed Marathon series. This two-day event was an exploration of the concept of the garden. A product of the creative encounter between the man-made and the natural, between order and disorder, the garden can offer productive metaphors for the interactions between human life and time, care, thought or space.

The event is directly inspired by the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011, designed by Peter Zumthor. The encounter of architecture and garden creates a contemplative space that is both set within – and meditatively separated from – the wider surroundings of Kensington Gardens.

Participations ranged from the fields of horticulture, design and architecture to explore the creation of gardens and their spatial, urban and scientific importance, through to works by artists and readings by poets and writers exploring the significance of the garden in our experience of the world.

More DLD friends that joined the Brunch included George Dyson, Andreas Angelidakis, Claudia Baumhöver, and Patrick Ness.

Please enjoy the pictures below to get an impression of the spirit and people attending the reception.

For more details about the truly mindblowing Garden Marathon consult the Serpentine Galleries' website. At the 2011 DLD conference "Update Your Reality", Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of the Serpentine Gallery, hosted two top-notch panels - "Solair Solar" and "Ever Clouds" with the participating artists Andreas Angelidakis, Werner Vogels, Hubert Damisch, Elizabeth Diller, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Tetsuo Kondo, Tomas Saraceno, Matthias Schuler, Olafur Elliasson, Bertrand Piccard, Stewart Brand, Frederik Ottesen, and Tino Sehgal.