The Serge Hill Project for Gardening, Creativity, and Health, is a not-for-profit initiative based on the understanding that working with nature can radically transform people’s health and wellbeing. The aim is to foster community inclusion through gardening and other forms of creativity.
Hosted by Tom Stuart-Smith Studio, Working with Earth: Architecture and Landscape is a two day symposium of forward-thinking discussions, shared knowledge, practical demonstrations and garden tours. It brings together a community of some of the most innovative, creative and acclaimed minds in sustainable Architecture and Landscape Architecture working in the UK today.
Speakers and demonstrators include Material Cultures (George Massoud and Paloma Gormley), Feilden Fowles (Fergus Feilden and Edmund Fowles) Local Works (Loretta Bosence and Ben Bosence), Sarah Price, Cleve West, Tom Massey, Tom Stuart-Smith, Ben Stuart-Smith and Millie Souter.
‘Gardening is unique amongst the creative therapies in drawing on the power of nature’s growth and in the extent to which it brings together the emotional, physical, social, vocational and spiritual aspects of life.
Some of the benefits of gardening derive from the focus on caring for plants, others from the direct influence of green nature on our nervous systems. The safe green space of a garden is calming which reduces stress and helps promote human connection.’
— Sue Stuart-Smith
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At a time when the therapeutic benefits of horticulture are so clear and cuts to social care are so common, this project will provide a space to heal. We envisage the development of the community garden as a whole team effort, with designers and volunteers coming together to create a space that will help people experience the mental and physical health and wellbeing benefits of gardens and gardening.