Borrowed Scenery is a story about an alternate reality (past, future or parallel) where plants are a central aspect of human society. The story can be experienced as woven through the physical spaces of everyday life, wherever plants and humans interact. Borrowed Scenery encourages us to see urban plant-life with fresh eyes and re-imagine our cities as places of intricate interactions between humans and plants: starting from plants providing food or materials, to plants which become our neighbours, teachers and gateways to the planetary 'other'. Borrowed scenery holds a magnifying glass to reveal vegetation where we would usually overlook it: in cracks between buildings, on our plates, in emerging technologies and age-old stories. Whereas in our reality humans cultivate plants (or so we think), in Borrowed Scenery plants are able to cultivate humans and absorb human culture into their growth and form. Borrowed Scenery is about dissolution of borders between reality and fiction, mysticism and technology, nature and culture. It is a story that wants to become reality. By 'borrowing' the setting of everyday life in the city, it attempts to infuse our habitual activities, such as walking or eating, with a vision of a possible future where endless economic growth is replaced by an atmosphere based economy, where nature has a voice.

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Borrowed Scenery is a part of FoAM's European project PARN and the Electrified project of Vooruit, SMAK and Timelab.