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Monastic gardens grew fruits, vegetables and medicinal herbs for all those living at the monastery (monks and craftsmen) as well as the nearby community. The medicinal herb garden also grew flowers as it was thought that looking at and smelling flowers cured the soul, therefore it had both a practical and spiritual use.

This drawing is the only surviving major architectural drawing from the roughly 700-year period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the 13th century.

Medieval Architectual plan of the Monastic compound of St. Gallen

Community Garden initiated by Adam Purple

Ellen Gallagher, DeLuxe (Detail),’ 2005. © Ellen Gallagher

Space is the Place (1974) Sun Ra

Garden of Earthy Delights, Hieronymus Bosch, 1490 - 1500

Medieval Reliquary Purses, 13 - 15th century
These purses contained not coins but reliquaries, small bones of saints or other religious artifacts thought to protect the wearer. Another research into purses lay claim that purses were originally used to carry seeds in early civilizations. To think that what we once used to carry seed, now carries currency...

Pleasure garden depicted in miniature, Roman de la Rose. British Museum in London, England.

Pleasure gardens were partly symbolic, an attempt to recreate the Garden of Eden, usually created on a small part of an estate, a symbol also of wealth, ownership over biblical stories.

Tashrīḥi Manṣūri , ca.1450 , US National Library of Medicine.
book of human anatomy by Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Ibn Ilyās

Map of the layout of a Garden City, 1898 by Ebenezer Howard, UK

Elias Ashmole, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum : Containing Severall Poeticall Pieces of Our Famous English Philosophers, Who Have Written the Hermetique Mysteries in Their Owne Ancient Language (London: J. Grismond, 1652)

A soundscape is the interplay of all acoustic phenomena that are produced in and through a room. The soundscape of a place is made up of natural sounds, language, work and machine noise as well as music. Soundscapes range from sound art, music or sound design in shopping centers, airports or offices to soundscapes of cities, villages or landscapes. It can be the smallest nuances that give a sound image a specific characteristic and thus make it unique.

The term of Soundscape was invented by Michael Southworth. It is a mélange of musical and sometimes nonmusical sounds an acoustic environment, recognized by people. According to an interview with Murray Schafer (published in 2013), Schafer himself attributes the term to city planner Michael Southworth. Southworth, a former student of Kevin Lynch, led a project in Boston in the 1960s and reported the findings in a paper entitled "The Sonic Environment of Cities," in 1969 (source Wikipedia).
Generally developed Murray the “soundscape” strongly with his publication “The Tuning of the World” (1977). With their study, he examined the changing sound world of cities and villages. That made him a pioneer of the acoustic ecology movement.

As a way out of this "acoustic pollution", Schafer advocates critical listening and active design of our acoustic environment. His method is a unique and complex synthesis of science, sociology and art.