Growing the city into forest
[ ⋇ ] [ F 1 , 1 ] ~ But a reassessment of the record in California reveals that land management systems have been in place here for at least twelve thousand years— ample time to affect the evolutionary course of plant species and plant communities. These systems extend beyond the manipulation of plant …
[ ⋇ ] They [sanctuaries] are constructed of trees, not cut down, but growing in their native soil. They said that on their earth there were trees of wonderful growth and height. These from their beginnings they arrange in order, so that they serve for porticoes and walks, and by cutting and pruning the branches …
Mayfield Brooks – Viewing Hours [ A 0 , 0 ] [ ⋇ ] Animals live from the grace of phloem – the vascular tissue of plants transporting sugars. Contrary to philosophies of life fixated on competition and violence, Phloem Phloem focuses on the profound generosity and cooperation of plants. ( Phloem Phloem, Growing the …
The impasse turns out to be a passage, and a creatively dangerous passageway. (Trinh Minh-ha. “Foriegnness and the New Color of Fear” Elsewhere Within Here. 2010)
[ K 1 , 2] [ ⋇ ] But what a spectacle the succession of men’s opinions presents! There I seek the progress of the human mind, and I find virtually nothing but the history of its errors. Why is its course-which is so sure, from the very first steps, in the field of mathematical …
[ K 1, 1 ] [ ⋇ ] We, in fact, have no single edge or boundary, but are rather part of a continuum that extends outward from our center of consciousness, both in a perceptual (epistemological-existen- tial) and in a biophysical sense—our brain centers must have oxygen, water, blood with all of its elements, …
(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 …
[ I 1, 1][ ⋇ ] I do feel the necessity to my so-called roots, since they are the fount of my strength, the guiding arrow to which I constantly refer before heading for a new direction” (Trinh T. MInh-Ha, 1989, Women Native Other). [ I 1, 1] [I 1, 2][ ⋇ ] Back from …