Name: Stop Five: Garden within a Garden by Geoffrey Bawa Trust in Geoffrey Bawa Space Audio Description Guide
Duration: 1 min 37 s
Description: Audio description of the sensory path in the garden of the Bawa Space.

Audio description guide for the Geoffrey Bawa Space in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Geoffrey Bawa Space Audio Description Guide

*Clarification [03:54]: Plant matter in general dates back four hundred to five hundred million years, not water lilies specifically.

In celebration of the Lunuganga gardens 75th anniversary, Tree Talks podcast explores the lives of flora and ecosystems within the gardens. Bought on the eve of independence in 1948, Lunuganga is Geoffrey Bawa’s first and longest running architectural endeavour, join us as we unravel the intricacies of this living archive.

This episode is a walk through Lunuganga on a cool January day with Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, naturalist, photographer and author of 'A Naturalist Guide to the Trees of Sri Lanka'. Gehan uncovers the intricacies of Lunuganga's flora and the fauna that flourish in its embrace as he reflects on the histories and migrations of select trees along the path and the influence of humans on globalised horticulture.

This episode follows a path from the Reading Room to the Field of Jars passing by the Jackfruit, Bilin, Mahogany, Mango, Araliya, Na, Fishtail Palm and Hora trees. A map with the sites and sounds of this episode along with other resources are available on our websites.

To Lunuganga: https://lunuganga.garden/Tree-Talks-EP01-Rooted-Histories
Geoffrey Bawa Trust: geoffreybawa.com/tree-talks

Special thanks to Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne for his expertise and animated exploration of Lunuganga and Shamin De Silva for editing and sound design in this episode.

Tree Talks: Rooted Histories

Instructions on how to use to Geoffrey Bawa Space audio guide 

Welcome to the Ways of Knowing Audio Guide

Audio description of what to expect when visiting the Geoffrey Bawa Space

Bawa Space Previsit Information

Desicription of what to expect when visiting the Ways of Knowing exhibtion at the Geoffrey Bawa Space

What to Expect at the Ways of Knowing Exhibition

A curatorial introduction to the Ways of Knowing exhibition at the Geoffrey Bawa Space

Stop One: Curatorial Introduction

Audio description of Barbara Sansoni's Araliya and Sky reddha at the Ways of Knowing exhibition in the Bawa Space.  

Stop Two: Araliya and Sky

Audio description of the sensory path in the garden of the Bawa Space.

Stop Five: Garden within a Garden

The Sri Lankan Architect Geoffrey Bawa is one of the most important and influential Asian architects of the 20th century. The podcast of the Geoffrey Bawa Trust builds on the repository of information available on Bawa and his practice, as well as the discourse on art and architecture in the island, through oral histories, lectures and discussions.

Stop Five: Garden within a Garden

Geoffrey Bawa Trust

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