Let us Live Among Our Art

What would it look like to inhabit the gardens we tend to?

The Art Garden Network is not simply a destination, it is a place of inhabitance. Informed by indigenous architectural practices, the Garden moves with the land.

The space is housing, built in and around the garden and communal spaces. Housing here is not based on profit, rent extraction, or competition.

The Art Garden Network is imagined as something that is more grown than built. The buildings and spaces change with what is happening around them, mildew, heat, shade, humidity, frost. Homes are made from local, renewable materials like mud, straw, bamboo. Walls are made from materials like mycelium and wood, so they smell like cedar and earth. They adjust to weather naturally, using shade, airflow, and insulation.


The homes are small but connected to shared spaces; kitchens, studios, gardens.

Living spaces also recognize that people are still healing from trauma. There will be safe rooms, quiet rooms, communal sleeping areas, and spaces for ritual or gathering.

During extreme weather, housing becomes shelter, not real estate.



The Art Garden Network challenges ideas about private property and isolation.

It imagines housing as part of ecological and emotional sustainability.

Living close to the garden, studio, and kitchen means that daily life is tied to cycles of growth, making, cooking, rest, and care.


Walking through the space would feel physical:
mud underfoot, rough bark on walls, shadows from leaves, warm stones on the ground.

In this world, buildings feel alive and responsive.

The earth that builds our homes keeps our hands warm and our feet dry.

The environment is quiet: leaves moving, clay hitting surfaces, a low hum left by microbes.

The mud that clings onto our skin reminds us that this is not temporary. They teach us that our gardening, artmaking, and worldbuilding practices are not temporary states; rather, they are embodied ways of living.