{"id":38290,"date":"2026-03-18T03:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/?p=38290"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:03:50","slug":"giulia-braglia-ephemeral-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/giulia-braglia-ephemeral-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Giulia Braglia \u2014 Ephemeral Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:28px;letter-spacing:-0.8px\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ephemeral Gardens is a video essay that explores and challenges the human need for control over vegetation, through the analysis of Japanese gardens and abandoned urban green areas in Kyoto. By alternating footage from maintained gardens and neglected urban vegetation, the project questions the unseen relationship between humans and green spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<br><strong>We Will Design 2026 \u2014 HELLO, DARKNESS<\/strong> embraces design as a tool for subverting hierarchies and weaving together ecologies and technologies to imagine the cities and societies of the future.<br>It is an invitation to recognize the abyss \u2014 political, ecological, aesthetic \u2014 we&#8217;re living in, not as a place of fear, but as a space of regeneration, resistance, and imagination. 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