| With private lawns redesignated as public terrain, where will Mrs. X proudly display her tulips and garden gnomes? Without a private lawn, the obsessive culture of lawn maintenance is relocated to the citizen's body. By integrating plant and fabric, the lawn is re-envisioned as an item of clothing. Lawntextile is a multilayered growing medium with an integrated hydroponic system and long-term hydro-docking capability. It can be fashioned into numerous items: jackets, ties, shoes. Everyville becomes a shifting human landscape of lawn-wearing citizens, populating their radically expanded public terrain. A seed-filled hem disperses seed along the path of the wearer. Each citizen is a unique pollinator, choosing the species distributed by her fabric, recording her everyday activity by the trail of growth left behind. As the fabric succumbs to suburban consumer trends, old clothes are planted or recycled as compost, further embedding the human trace within the emerging terrain. |
