Dymaxion Sleep, constructed by Adrian Blackwell and Jane Hutton for the 10th Edition of the International Garden Festival at Les Jardins de Métis in Grand-Métis, Quebec, runs from June 27th to October 4th, 2009.

Dymaxion Sleep is a structure of nets suspended above a field of aromatic plants. Rather than walking through the garden, visitors lie on top of it. The typically solitary experience of sleeping in a garden is translated into a public event. Mints, lemon geranium, eucalyptus and lavender mimic the structure's topography and define scented regions upon which to lie. The steel structure that holds the nets is an unfolded icosahedron, the form of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion World Map. If Fuller's map reconfigured standard representations of the world by refusing to define orientation, Dymaxion Sleep sets up surfaces on which to relax in different configurations: curled up, stretched out, or piled upon friends.

Information is available at: www.jardinsmetis.com/english/festival/edition.php

Many thanks to Adrienne Ball, Walter Blackwell, Carole Cortois, Dany Filion, Alejandro López Hernandez, Rebekka Hutton, Bea Mah Holland, Peter Holland, Francois Leblanc, Gene Mastrangeli, Jean-Yves Roy, Yves Sasseville, Mike Scahill, Safra Shaw, Amos Shaw, and Pascal Tardif.