The garden festival is mostly required to move visitors while omitting the value of taskscape, temporality, and contextuality, which are in the original garden. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to how the garden festival represents a given theme by implication and embodies the disconnected time. For this purpose, this study is intended to look at the narcissism garden (entitled “To you who don’t love me [To me in the mirror]”), which was exhibited in the garden art section of the Goyang International Flower Festival in 2018, to investigate how it effectively conveys the theme how space, time, and human senses in the garden were expressed. The mystic gate acts as a gateway into the garden and is a space for setting up the time and context that is cut off at the garden festival. The inside wardrobe creates a visual focus through objects and decorates the appearance with a time that is trapped in the eyes of others, but expresses the inside that is itself hurt by a lack of confidence. The hourglass in the heart expressed the social atmosphere of tightening the corset strings that it was wearing and a look wanting to hold onto the flying time. The double-sided mirror newly interpreted narcissism by arranging two dressing tables and looking at itself ecstatically in front of the broken mirror, thinking its face was beautiful. The message wall had a direct expression through the text and indirectly expressed the message that it is beautiful by planting a peach tree, but is only a temporary appearance in which flowers fall after a short period of time. The significance of this study is that both the design strategy and motive for clearly delivering the theme given to the festival to the visitors were reflected in the actual space through a focus on the time of the garden and the forming of new thinking and approach.

A variety of garden exhibitions were held in major Korean cities during the fall of 2017. Various themes and garden forms were displayed in the six major cities of Seoul, Busan, Incheon, Suncheon, Gyeonggido Ansan, and Gyeonggido in Dongtan New Town. Many participants of the garden fair decorated gardens around natural objects that showed space and time according to their design. The garden provides the best means of personal development. It is a space and place in which to express the dynamics of self-realization. The garden fair offers interactivity through a combination of biophilia, and toylism that provides customers with pleasure, fashion, and satisfaction. There were 280 works on display in these six major metropolitan cities during the fall of 2017. This number has grown from the 10 original Korean garden show writers. We began this study to discover regular or irregular patterns contained at the exhibition as well as to present elements that could be used in major studies.

This study created a thematic garden, entitled “Spring revisited”, in the outdoor garden section of the 2017 Goyang International Flower Festival to present the life and ideas of poet Yoon Dongju through garden culture. It used visual narrative techniques to express and present the poet’s life and the value of his literature in the language of space design. Through this method, the garden provided a holistic experience of Yoon Dongju’s selfhood and literature through indirect perceptions experienced in the space rather than as direct experience. The room of wind and time embodied the poet’s life by overlapping small pieces of blue-colored clothing, and fluttering cloths and grasses were used to represent the wind. In the room of night and stars, a black mirror expressed the night sky as a visual embodiment of his poetry. In the road of desolation, a long passage was created with walls on either side to express the desolation and agony of life to the viewers as they walked through the dark space. The path of the writing pad was modeled on a manuscript to convey the meaning of the poet’s path, and the poetic language of the poet’s masterpiece, heaven, wind, stars, and poems, were written there on. The stone grave, flower grave area combined the negative words of “stone grave” with contrasting images of stone and flower to seek a transition in the emotional atmosphere. The poet’s room was a partially open space inspired by a prison cell. A chair and a desk with a writing pad and pen reminded the viewers of the poet and helped them to experience him. The space of spring was a double meaning of the spring time he could not experience and his aspiration for the nation’s independence. At the height of the garden festival, numerous types of beautiful spring plants were presented. The significance of this study lies in its design techniques that enabled a clear presentation of the topic in the garden space to a general stream of visitors combined with the values pursued by the poet.

A garden festival is characterized by its nature as a garden exhibition event. The Seoul Garden Festival was held to expand garden culture, increasing citizens’ quality of life, and also to achieve urban regeneration through discovery and development of features of various gardens in Seoul. Mother’s Garden of Memory is based on the motif of the gardens tended by mothers in the past, and inspires recollection of related memories and stories. Gardens tended by mothers in the past can be encountered today in everyday life as practical living gardens. Facilities and suitable space sizes for a living garden were selected based on previous research results. The exhibition garden was designed to include a fruit tree hill, medicinal plant/herb garden, and butterfly garden in its planting space; a vegetable garden in its multi-purpose space and production space; a pond in its waterscape space; and a seating wall in its resting space. Additionally, the garden’s plants consisted primarily of species that were suitable for the characteristics of each space, could be tended practically, and could be accessed easily. Finally, a garden management plan was established to provide a model for living gardens, ensuring that these gardens could be continuously sustained.

한국의 사회, 문화유산이 녹아있는 서울의 문화적 가치를 재현함에 있어 장인의 기여가 현대에 와서는 크게 부각되지 않고 있다. 우리 사회의 많은 디자인에 장인의 감각과 능력이 눈에 보이지 않게 중요한 기초가 되었다. 서울시가 주최한 상암동 평화의 공원에서 개최된 서울정원박람회에서 새로운 정원디자인의 목표에 접근하는 방법으로 장인들의 작업 속에 나타나는 전통문화의 해석과 공간적인 특성을 통해 표현하고자 하였다. 서울 장인정원 설계는 전통적인 서울문화를 장인의 개념을 통해 상징적으로 함축하여 공간적인 의미를 전달하는 것에 초점을 맞추었다. 정원에서는 사람으로서의 장인, 그들이 사용하였던 도구, 그들이 만든 공예품, 그들의 이미지를 자연으로 드러내는 4개의 장인 문화에 대한 층위개념을 설정하였다. 자연으로서 정원의 그라스와 꽃은 대비효과를 위해 큰 원형의 안과 밖에서 상호 관계 되도록 하였다. 장인의 상징적인 이미지와 자연과의 관계에서 공예품의 배경으로 그라스를 사용하고 시각적인 오브제로서 관목 파티션의 반복과 꽃을 사용하였다. 이 설계의 메타포는 강한 시각적 호기심을 끌 수 있는 독특한 해법이며 따라서 정원의 방문자에게 서울 장인 정원의 상징적인 의미를 제공하게 된다.