Mobil Garden
Type:
Urban Intervention, Installation
Location:
Melbourne, Australia
Year:
2024
Client:
Government of Victoria, MDW
Area:
N/A
MOBILE GARDEN / / "Seyyar BAHÇE
"Mobile Garden" designed by Synthetic Architecture, is a dynamic installation that circulates through the streets of Melbourne during Melbourne Design Week. This mobile oasis, mounted on a tricycle, aims to bring people and green spaces closer together, creating spontaneous opportunities for new encounters and interactions. Eng // The word “Mobile” originated from the late 15th century: via French from the Latin word “mobilis”, from “movere” ‘to move’. The noun dates from the 1940s. Tr // Arapça syr kökünden gelen sayyāra(t) سيّارة “gezgin (şey, yıldız), planet” sözcüğünden alıntıdır. Bu sözcük Arapça sāra سَارَ “yürüdü, gezdi, yol aldı” fiilinin faˁˁāla(t) vezninde meslek adıdır. The design concept builds on the idea that “mobility” signifies more than just movement. Rooted in the sociological aspect of being on the road, we discovered that what truly sets “mobility” apart is the power of conversation.
Marchand de Fleurs
For centuries, conversation has served as a unifying and sharing force, as seen in photographs over a century old—where the exchange of ideas endures beyond mere motion or trade.
Salt Archive
MDW
Melbourne Design Week celebrates design in an annual 11-day program of talks, tours, exhibitions, launches, installations, and workshops across Australia’s design capital. The program is driven by ideas through providing a platform for designers, educators, enthusiasts, thinkers, and businesses to come together to share these ideas.
Crafted to Green
A greening modular garden, designed to fit any three-wheeled bicycle, where 3D-printed joints unite standard aluminum profiles into a living, moving landscape. Acknowledging that access to green spaces may decline in many major cities over the next century, we envision the Mobile Garden as a tool to bring people together. It offers an alternative to the increasingly artificial nature of transportation, recognizing that humans, as part of nature, need meaningful interaction with both one another and the environment for overall well-being. As Synthetic Architecture, we synthesized organic and artificial elements to create a moving garden. In a future where intelligent autonomous vehicles replace traditional ones, we imagined these vehicles featuring living gardens as welcoming, unifying spaces—merging innovation with nature to foster connection and conversation.
Melbourne Design Week is curated into two streams. There is a stream of local and international exhibitions and presentations organised by the National Gallery of Victoria, which includes the Melbourne Art Book Fair and the Melbourne Design Fair. There are also the satellite program of events respond to the 2024 MDW themes ethics, ecology and energy. The satellite program makes up approximately 90 per cent of the program with events held at ateliers, studios, retail spaces, universities, galleries, gardens and public spaces throughout Melbourne and regional Victoria.
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