Calling all artists, designers, makers and gardeners! Radical Ecology and Luna’s Bakehouse invite proposals for the design and creation of a Migrant Futurist Garden - one that imagines displacement and diasporic experience not as problems to be solved, but as genesis of creative insight, innovation and possibility. We are looking for new visions of regenerative green space that honour the ways plants, soils and people re-create landscape, culture, technologies and social forms in response to disruption: how migratory routes become corridors of knowledge; how memory, loss and longing produce new modes of relationality; how belonging is re-woven in shared resistance or collective care.
The garden will be planted in Webbers Yard, Dartington, on an 5.5 by 14 metre plot overlooking Luna’s Bakehouse and Radical Ecology’s studio. Our main requirement is that the garden must be nomadic, incorporating temporary, mobile and adaptive designs for easy movement. Creative ideas could include portable raised beds, containers and vertical gardens. We also welcome inventive structures that double-up as seating, shelter or resting spots. The garden must be suitable for all ages and abilities to appreciate and enjoy, so please avoid any plants that could be toxic to children or pets.
The commissioned artist/designer will have time for oversight as well as build, working in collaboration with volunteers and staff from the studio and bakehouse. They will also prepare a maintenance plan, which will lay the foundation for a community gardening club as a vital space for memory, exchange and imagining futures together.
To apply, please submit an Expression of Interest to include an outline of your idea and your practice to opportunities@radicalecology.earth by 24th October 2025. From these submissions, a shortlist of applicants will be invited to develop detailed proposals and budget breakdowns. A final design will be selected by mid November. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at studio@radicalecology.earth
Timeline: Closing date for EOIs: 24th October Stage 1 results announced: 31st October Stage 2 submissions due: 14th November Final selection: 28th November Installation to be completed and installed by Spring 2026
Fee: Radical Ecology will contribute a minimum of £1,500 towards the artist fee, materials and build. Following the final selection, we will launch a crowdfunding campaign to raise an additional £2500 for realisation.