When the Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa set up the Geoffrey Bawa Trust 40 years ago in 1982, he made the remarkable decision of issuing a mandate that was to foster ecological and environmental sciences, art, and architecture. Perhaps as an architect whose life’s work is centered around a garden, this foresight was inevitable.
That garden, Lunuganga, celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, in 2023. Felicitating this occasion, the Geoffrey Bawa Trust explores the inseparability of art and ecology with “To Lunuganga”; a one year programme dedicated to the garden by using the garden as a lens for engagement.