Kimberley Berney (FS21)

The Inhabited Garden is a proposal to combine affordable housing for the elderly and a communal medicinal plant garden. 

Cared for as much by its temporary as by its permanent inhabitants, it aims to encourage mutual care and exchange between generations. Offering an achievable solution to the feeling of lack of purpose at an older age, loneliness, fear of care homes, depression, lack of movement and overmedication as identified through the research.

On a larger scale, it gradually empowers all generations to reclaim simple habits of care, preventing chronic diseases at their root. By making space for the elderly and reintegrating knowledge and understanding of healing plants to the City, the Inhabited Gardens offer spaces for new narratives of collectively organized care to emerge. 

For more information please refer to theinhabitedgarden.com