A PLEASURE GARDEN FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Graham Sheffield CBE  – Director Arts, British Council
“Garden of Ideas is an extraordinary and inspiring idea – unique in its approach to the concept of a 21st Century pleasure garden, linked to the original manifested back in 17th and 18th century London.The proposal is that Garden of Ideas will combine high art, thrilling rides, film, food, sculpture, music and cutting-edge technology in a landscaped park and cavernous halls. It promises to be a brilliant indoor and outdoor addition to the cultural landscape (literally) of London, with appeal to the broadest of audience.”
Pipilotti Rist – Artist    
“The Garden of Ideas project is full of love. It’s like a dream coming true. I believe in the necessity to do a high level pleasure park for everybody. All generations, all classes, all cultural groups are symbolized in the Garden of Ideas as a utopian melting pot art park, where we dance, experience, think, learn and eat together.”
Alexa Perrin – The Experimental Food Society
“Garden of Ideas is a project that will lay a most fertile soil. Pioneering a fresh approach in architectural, environmental, artistic and social practice is truly worthwhile. This is what the future should look like.”
Zoë Wanamaker – Actress
“This sounds like a very cool project, intriguing, exciting and takes us into the 21st century.”
Carolyn Kerr – Head Curator (British Art) Tate Britain
“Garden of Ideas is an extraordinary and exciting project that challenges our expectations; a unique opportunity for art to be experienced and enjoyed by anyone in an entirely new way.”
John Waters – Artist, Film director, Author
“Finally, an amusement park whose focus is edge and humour rather than theme park dreariness and market-tested blandness. Garden of Ideas could be the Coney Island of my dreams; scary because it will be so close to the horrors of the real world but thrilling in its commercial appeal to everybody without “dumbing down” the social satire. Hopefully, the joyous rebel in every curious spectator will be excited just like I am by the whole idea. What can I say, I’m a true carney at heart.”
Emma Thompson – Actress
“This is an important ‘must have’ installation gallery for the future of London, and for our children, ensuring London remains at the centre of installation arts and engages broad audiences with high-end content in an exciting new way. I fully support the Garden of Ideas.”
Dame Judi Dench – Actress
“Garden of Ideas is an innovative project and I wish it huge success.”
Lois Keidan – Live Arts Development Agency
“Garden of Ideas is an intriguing new vision for the arts in London that has the potential to lead to the development and experience of new performance-based practices in new settings. Garden of Ideas is considering the creation of total immersion environments that promise to engage audiences with art in ways that they may not have had the opportunity to experience before. The Live Art Development Agency supports the work of Simon Elliott in developing this project which we have seen gain real momentum over the last few years. The Live Art Development Agency would like to encourage potential funders to support the project and contribute to the development of a new and potentially unique creative environment in London.”
The Right Honourable Patricia Hewitt – Chair of the UK India Business Council
“Garden of Ideas is an inspiring vision that combines sustainability, creativity, education and entertainment. Like its partner, the EDEN project, it demonstrates that good values can be the foundation of a great tourist attraction.”
Felix Barrett – Artistic Director, Punchdrunk
“Garden of Ideas embodies the way the world is going, as we sit in front of computer screens using less and less of the human senses, we become more aware of how we need creative places to explore our human senses with more detailed intelligence and sensitivity. The Garden of Ideas is the way forward and Punchdrunk would like to support this project and we look forward to participating in its realisation.” 
Sir David Bell – Director of Imagine Nations, Trustee of Common Purpose UK, Chair of UK’s Millennium Commission, Media Standards Trust, Council at Roehampton University, Crisis UK and Sadler’s Wells 
“Garden of Ideas is  something I have seen grow and develop with some of the world's most innovative and engaging thinkers. Simon has brought a world-class team to deliver the project and I can’t wait to see it up, open and running. This will become a popular destination developing work with some very talented artists and community groups to create the content. This is a groundbreaking, much needed project to give a voice to the unheard in a spectacular and intelligent way.”
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