Flying Gardens is a part of a long-term Saraceno project called Air-Port-City. This is a floating, habitable, dynamic structure – inspired by Buckminister Fuller and engineering structure found in nature, from clouds to bubbles to spider webs – which envisions the sustainable transportation of people and information: a model for aerial, nomadic ‘zero footprint’ cities.

Flying Gardens have spatial and temporal characteristics are needed for a sustainable occupation, a necessary invasion made up of plants, humans and animals. The geographic range of most plant and animal species is limited by climatic factors and any shift will have an impact on the organisms living there. Climate changes faster than plants and can disperse to new, more suitable areas. Flying gardens – translucent, light and mobile – have constituted a practice that exercises hope, interaction and synergy, and helps imagine moving towards a less damaging, more collaborative lifestyle of the future.