Modern Design Review

Written By Vickie Hayward

Modern Design Review
The Illuminated Garden featuring Super Nature TV
Installation, 2021

Public realm commissioning for King’s Cross, ‘The Illuminated Garden featuring Super Nature TV’ welcomed the return of the ever-popular Space Frames. This clever reusable modular design, by Studio Mieke Meijer, was turned into an Illuminated Garden housing Super Nature TV - a fountain of ideas on circular design, delivered during the London Design Festival.

Curated by Laura Houseley at Modern Design Review, Super Nature TV is a compilation film and features a curation of found films - made by designers, institutions and brands such as; Formafantasma, Atelier Luma, Kengo Kuma, Christien Meindertsma, Tom Dixon and Mary Mattingley - that each tell a story related to circularity, reuse and sustainable systems. Together, this rich tapestry of information gives an insight into the many different solutions and approaches currently being explored, cogitated and implemented by the international design community to create lasting change.

Super Nature TV curated by Modern Design Review

Super Nature TV was itself an exercise in recycling and reuse; making use of existing content rather than pointlessly recreating it, and in a time when travel and public gatherings continued to be difficult, the film offered an alternative to the traditional design week talk format; Super Nature TV brought together the most interesting voices on circularity in an accessible digital format.

Designed to be reused and rethought time and again, this was the third reinvention of Space Frames, this time as a playful garden.

 
 

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