By bringing distant voices close, radio connects people and places. From its very beginning, radio signals have crossed borders. Radio makers and listeners have imagined both connecting with distant cultures, as well as re-connecting with people from ‘home’ from thousands of miles away. Radio Garden is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Our dedicated team is hard at work tending to the garden on
a daily basis. Planting seeds for the future and keeping the weeds at bay. Team
As head gardener of Radio Garden, Jonathan Puckey is involved in design, development and everything in between. Abdulwadûd Louws takes care of the steady stream of station submissions and makes sure our collection of over forty-thousand live stations is neat and tidy. Barbara Hennequin works with us as art director, illustrator, product designer and writer. The Garden
In 2018 we launched mobile apps for both iOS and Android platforms. In 2019 we introduced the ability for our users to search for their favorite stations and places. In order to better facilitate day to day use, we launched a redesign of Radio Garden in 2020 in collaboration with digital product designer Timo Hofmeijer. Rebuilt from the ground up as a mobile first experience, it laid the groundwork for future developments. In 2021 we introduced a new section called Browse, a first step to opening up the collection of stations for more curated experiences. One of the first features is curated playlists, where we invite specialists from across the globe to tell stories through selections of stations. Origins
Radio Garden started out in 2016 as an exhibition project commissioned by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in the context of the research project Transnational Radio Encounters. It was created, designed and developed by Studio Puckey & Moniker. After taking care of the project in the following years, Jonathan Puckey turned Radio Garden into a small independent company in 2019. Technologies & Services
Many thanks to the following products, libraries and services:
3D globe – Cesium
Satellite imagery – MapTiler
Content management – Dito
Typeface – Atlas Grotesk
