Abstract
The last few years have seen a surge in temporary gardens. The flexibility and new challenges involved in conceptualizing and building non-permanent landscapes, has made them a creative and stimulating testing ground for designers. A study of the phenomenon of temporary gardens is relevant for several reasons. First, because it expands the literature on ‘temporary urbanism’. Secondly, because it makes a relevant contribution to the disciplines of garden design and landscape design. The practice of temporary gardens involves a different conception and embodiment of time in design of space – from ‘linear’ time and cyclical time to ‘the immediacy of here and now’. The emergence of ‘temporality’ as design enquiry has prompted designers to look at practices other than garden design.