ABSTRACT
‘Marnas: A Journey in Space, Time, and Ideas’ provides the first public access to the garden laboratory of the master designer/theorist, Sven-Ingvar Andersson, who documented his experiments there over the course of fifty years through thousands of photographs. This unique documentation made possible this interactive website, designed as an immersive, three- and four-dimensional experience. It is now possible to journey through the garden in space and time, across decades. The website transports the visitor, not only through space and time, but also through a series of ideas, to arrive at new insights. It aspires to evoke the magical quality of Marnas and bring alive the ideas that shaped it. Like the garden itself, it has both a clear formal structure and one that is freely growing, with no one beginning, and no single end. The homepage unfolds via a vertical scroll through a series of gateways. One gateway invites you to take a guided tour of the garden, others, to explore on your own, meet Sven-Ingvar Andersson, or travel in time. The goal was to create a visit to Marnas as it existed throughout Andersson’s lifetime and to stimulate exploration and interaction, the viewer an active participant.
