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Garden Futures: Designing with Nature

Opening 17 May 2025

Unearth the future of garden design

Explore the history of modern garden design, the important role gardens play in all our lives, and find out how our outdoor spaces can shape a greener, more imaginative future.

This exhibition highlights groundbreaking gardens by visionaries like Piet Oudolf and Derek Jarman, alongside innovative work from leading artists, designers, and landscape architects, such as Jamaica Kincaid, Duncan Grant and William Morris.​

Discover what the future of gardens could look like, and gain insight into the power of gardens and how our outdoor spaces can be part of a better world.

Tickets available from March 2025 or become a Member now to see it for free.

Garden Futures: Designing with Nature is an exhibition by the Vitra Design Museum, the Wüstenrot Foundation, and the Nieuwe Instituut.

Opens Saturday 17 May 2025

V&A Dundee 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee, DD1 4EZ

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Key objects

Céline Baumann, Parliament of Plants, 2020
Céline Baumann, Parliament of Plants, 2020 © Studio Céline Baumann
Hans Aeschbach, Lonza fertilizer, 1960
Hans Aeschbach, Lonza fertilizer, 1960 © Poster Collection Schule für Gestaltung Basel, © Hans Aeschbach, © Lonza,
Roberto Burle Marx, Design for the Ministry of Education and Health roof garden, Rio de Janeiro
Roberto Burle Marx, Design for the Ministry of Education and Health roof garden, Rio de Janeiro © Burle Marx Institute Archive
A skyscraper building with wraparound cube shaped balconies, each overflowing with greenery
Stefano Boeri, Bosco Verticale, Milan, 2014 © Stefano Boeri Architetti, Photo: The Blink Fish, 2018
Piet Oudolf, Sketch for planting design of the Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein
Piet Oudolf, Sketch for planting design of the Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein © Piet Oudolf
Julien de Cerval, The Gardens of Marqueyssac, France, designed in the 1860s
Julien de Cerval, The Gardens of Marqueyssac, France, designed in the 1860s © Laugery – The Gardens of Marqueyssac, Dordogne, France
Patricia Urquiola, Tropicalia armchair, 2008
Patricia Urquiola, Tropicalia armchair, 2008 © Vitra Design Museum, Photo: Andreas Sütterlin
James Wines, Drawing of the Highrise of Homes (theoretical project), 1981, Collection Jonathan Holtzman © James Wines
James Wines, Drawing of the Highrise of Homes (theoretical project), 1981, Collection Jonathan Holtzman © James Wines
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