Growing the city into forest
(Q2)A more fleshed out thought in relation to the latent forests of Bombay: During my last week in India in December 2019, I stood on my mother’s 7th floor balcony in the city of Pune watching grey hornbills, kingfishers, monkeys, and snakes traverse the housing society compound. On one side was the bustling Bombay-Bangalore highway, …
( Q1 – Quote 1 )Thinking of the city as a latent forest – Latency «shows up» as deferred action or as hidden potential. If he project is about imprinting the city with the forest, or rather the forest on the city, so that it might develop into one eventually – the forest is always …
[ b 1,1 ] The vision for Phloem Phloem grew out of post-global warming images and ecological themes in Japanese anime and manga. Representations of climate changed overgrown ruined green cities cross-fertilized with my studies of petroleum culture, ecological philosophy, climate policy rhetoric, and indigenous ecologies and legal orders. Since 2017, I have been teaching …