Evenings with DADo: Taming The Garden

Join DADo at Walsh Street for a screening of Taming The Garden. Prior to the screening, we will be joined by Prof Hélène Frichot contextualise the film.⁠
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An ode to the rivalry between men and nature, Taming the Garden is the story of how a powerful man indulges in an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communities along the Georgian coast and has them excavated to collect for his private garden. In order to transplant trees of such dimensions, the landscape surrounding them is ripped apart and the people living around them are forced to adapt to the disruption. ⁠
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Hélène Frichot, architectural theorist and philosopher, is Professor of Architecture and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and former professor at KTH Stockholm. Her research blends architecture and philosophy, developing creative methodologies and concepts grounded in care ethics and affect theory.