Anthropocenic rhetoric calls out “Man” as the agent of his own demise and simultaneously vaults him into position as the only viable saviour of the planet. Anthropocene thinking is so obsessed with Man’s independence that it forgets that there are other forces and powers among us. Plants are the world-makers we need to heed if we hope to grow liveable worlds. And our worlds will only be liveable worlds when people learn how to conspire with the plants.
New findings show how changes in land use have complex effects on animal and plant species.
In this multimedia piece, poet Forrest Gander and artist Katie Holten collaborate to evoke a language of the redwood forests of Northern California.
It is a sign of both a shift in our relationship to organic life and the ubiquity of new information technologies that a young generation of architects has seized...
A lot can be blamed on (or credited to) the currently available tools and the open-source nature of many parametric design tools...