Jane Hutton and Adrian Blackwell's project, Dymaxion Sleep will be constructed for the 10th Edition of the International Garden Festival at Les Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens in Grand-Métis, Quebec.  The festival runs from June 27th to October 4th, 2009.

Dymaxion Sleep consists of a structure of nets suspended above a field of aromatic plants. Rather than walking through the garden, visitors sit or lie above it. The typically intimate and solitary experience of sleeping in a garden is translated into a public event. Because the nets obscure the planting from view, the garden privileges the sense of smell over sight. Plants are grouped according to a set of olfactory categories and as a topographic map correlating the heights of plants to the structure above: regions of low and high citrus and mints, mid height floral plants and taller pungent species that peak out from under the nets at the edges. The steel structure that holds the nets is an unfolded 20-sided icosahedron, the form of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion World Map. Just as Fuller's map reconfigured standard representations of the world by refusing to define orientation, Dymaxion Sleep reconfigures the relations between visitors, creating a common horizontal surface on which to relax: curled up, stretched out, wrapped up together, or piled upon friends.

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