A skyscraper building with wraparound cube shaped balconies, each overflowing with greenery

exhibition

Garden Futures: Designing with Nature

On now until 25 January 2026

Unearth the extraordinary and everyday world of garden design

This sensory show digs deep into the history of modern garden design and reveals the vital role gardens play in our everyday lives through surprising and often unexpected stories.

From windowsill plants and manicured lawns, to allotments and green spaces in unlikely places, gardens hold different meanings for everyone. Explore groundbreaking garden design by visionaries like Piet Oudolf and Derek Jarman, alongside innovative work from leading artists, writers and designers, such as Duncan Grant, Jamaica Kincaid and William Morris.

Explore how gardens from across the globe excite and inspire, motivating us to have a go and create our own labour of love.

On now until 25 January 2026

V&A Dundee 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee, DD1 4EZ

Exhibition Gallery

Tickets £7.50 – £16, book in advance for £1 discount. Members and kids go free

Key objects

Kieran Dodds, Debre Ensesa, Ethiopia, 2018 Photo: Kieran Dodds
Kieran Dodds, Debre Ensesa, Ethiopia, 2018 Photo: Kieran Dodds
Two people standing taking a photo of themselves standing on a floral meadow.
Meadow by Alexandra Kehayoglou
Dovecot Tapestries
The Garden Carpet Tapestry by Dovecot Studios and Farshid Moussavi Architecture. © Dovecot Studios. Photography by Phil Wilkinson.
A wall of garden tools on a green background
A Taxonomy of Tools
Maggies Dundee
Maggie’s Dundee, designed by Frank Gehry of Gehry Partners
DIOR MEN'S SUMMER 2023 COLLECTION - LOOK 5 - © Dior
Erdem Look 19, Spring Summer 2023 and Dior Men's Summer 2023 collection.
Piet Oudolf, Sketch for planting design of the Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein
Piet Oudolf, Sketch for planting design of the Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein © Piet Oudolf
A modern high rise building with balconies in different sizes and each balcony is covered in green plants.
Stefano Boeri, Bosco Verticale, Milan, 2014 © Stefano Boeri Architetti, Photo: The Blink Fish, 2018
William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest
William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest
Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman, Prospect Cottage Garden at Dungeness, Kent, UK, designed from 1986 Photo: Howard Sooley, 1993
Two people standing playing a video game
Garden, a video game by Biome Collective.
Join textile designer Alice-Marie Archer

Stitch to Seed

In a new commission, artist Alice-Marie Archer explores how we can combine traditional craft, plant science and gardening to collectively create textiles that care for the planet.

Want to get involved? We're running monthly knitting workshops where you can add to a community quilt.

Explore Our Shop

V&A Seaweed Patterned Tote Bag

V&A Seaweed Patterned Tote Bag

Garden Futures catalogue

Garden Futures: Designing With Nature Exhibition Catalogue

eight green leaf brooches sitting alongside each other in a row

Garden Futures Leaf Brooch

Monty Don Photographed by Jason Ingram

Garden Futures Podcast

From expert tips to insights into the exhibition, this special series of podcasts digs deeper into the world of gardens and garden design.

Garden Futures_ Designing with Nature _ Piet Oudolf Garden at Vitra Design Museum  Photo courtesy of Vitra Design Museum

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Exhibition by

Vitra Design Museum logo
Vitra Design Museum
Wüstenrot Foundation logo
Wüstenrot Foundation
Nieuwe Instituut logo
Nieuwe Instituut

Global Sponsor

Weleda logo
Weleda

Partner

Gardena logo
Gardena

Supported by

Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust
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