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1. asamina kaniari challenges yasminers to think about living
architectures (YASMIN DISCUSSIONS)
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Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 13:42:42 -0500
From: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr>
To: Assimina Kaniari <assimina.kaniari@gmail.com>,
yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr, Jonathon Keats <jonathonkeats@gmail.com>,
Joel Slayton <joel@well.com>, Vania Negrete <he.lios@hotmail.com>
Cc: Nina Czegledy <czegledyn@gmail.com>
Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] asamina kaniari challenges yasminers to
think about living architectures
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asamina and yasminers
asamina thanks about your incitation of using 'living architecture'
methods- yasminers her email is included
and find out how to complete a tax return concerned with underground
biological activity though a new as a living biological space in
democratic deficit.
we hope you are 'polling' the plants in your neighborhood as a first step to
helping them to vote in your next city election-- recently i have been
visiting 'decorative' plants and gardens in dallas
manicured lawns and plants with every leaf designed by humans. Are
urban gardens a help or a hindrance to
making the plant world happier ? or both.
i note that the nation state is an irrelevant 'scale' for intervention
on climate change ( see the ideas of ramon guardans
and nina czegledy)- we need global scales and neighborhood scales-
satellites give us a sense of global climate
change and by looking in your neighborhood you get a sense of local
changes( eg increased flooding in many
neighborhoods)- hence jonathon keats provocation to poll your local plants
after we finish the plant polling over the next few weeks Jonathon
Keats will lead the next steps in our
yasmin discussions- but for now yasminers are invited to observe and
notice whether their local plants
are feeling well or not and report back. Once we have the plant
opinion polls we can step forward.
Roger Malina
On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 5:19 AM Assimina Kaniari
<assimina.kaniari@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Roger and Nina and Jonathan,
>
> I wonder if it would be useful to the plants thought experiment to think in terms of analogies between (city/urban/civic) plants (planted) and residents 'settled', by way of housing as a metaphor (through architecture). Building 'houses' which grow in a vertical manner (just as city growth in modern cities) resembles the way plants grow (vertically-yet without following rules of perspective, as Hockney has written about trees).
> I always found interesting Kader Attia's discussion of modernism and mass architecture housing in France (and his work revisiting Le Corbusier's ideal city as couscous at Tate).
>
> Suzanne Anker has discussed how plants sense and feel (by drawing on M. Marder's Plant thinking: a philosophy of vegetal life in her discussion of her work Astroculture looking at links between speculative and real and historical conditions of plant growth (a terrarium as a space experiment in 0 gravity as a cabinet of curiosity) to think about plants, science and culture from the perspective of plants and ?how above ground and underground environments appear to plants'..
> http://suzanneanker.com/wp-content/uploads/02.pdf
> https://www.leonardo.info/review/2017/09/review-of-institutional-critique-to-hospitality-and-open-science-singularity-and
>
> This way of thinking about plants the living physicality of plants, their 'architecture' and survival patterns is indeed a thought metaphor for a rethinking of a 'living' architecture (not only in terms of the people that it hosts, like a biblical arc) but perhaps more in the sense of an expanded field (taking on board plant vision and growth as a living and real metaphor) just as Rosalind Krauss talked about the blurring of boundaries in the art object and 'sculpture' against the 'expanded field' also through photography in dialogue with architecture many years back looking at static and dry structures (is the work what we encounter on the surface or what is also underneath?). How can we account for the messiness and fluidity of water (waste) but if it is also something that we produce perhaps we should also have a payback from the profits of its management -as a tax return concerned with underground biological activity though a new as a living biological space in democratic deficit.
>
> Plants have roots which extend deep down in the soil (often fed and watered by sewers) but are encountered (from an anthropocentric view) at street level (as part of the city topography, as perspectival additions) as elements of the horizon.
> Their growth by taking on board an expanded field leads also to a different thinking about more inclusive ways of participation in the profits of the new economy of waste as a plant-building-civic thought experiment. A
>
> > > > I am currently 'polling" plants in dallas and so far have discovered
> > > that:
> > > > a) i notice more unhappy people than unhappy plants- why cant dallas
> > > > provide all humans a minimum annual income-
> > > > as they do to plants who are watered and clipped and planted by the
> > > > city for free.
> > > > b) i dont know how to know whether a plant is 'happy' and my son
> > > > xavier said i was projecting
> > > > on plants things that are desirable to humans ( eg happiness) instead
> > > > of asking plants what THEY desire
> > > >
> > > > If anyone would like to help us organise this discussion contact nina
> > > and I
> > > > via rmalina@ alum.mit.edu and czegledyn@gmail.com
>
>
> --
>
> Assimina Kaniari, D.Phil Oxford, M.Phil Cambridge.
>
> Assistant Professor, Art History, Athens School of Fine Arts.
>
> https://www.leonardo.info/led/4685
>
> http://www.asfa.gr/assimina-kaniari
>
> Publications
>
> Acts of Seeing Artists, Scientists and the History of the Visual : A Volume Dedicated to Martin Kemp
>
> Assimina Kaniari, Marina Wallace, Martin Kemp
>
> Institutional Critique to Hospitality: Bio Art Practice Now. A critical anthology
>
> Assimina Kaniari (editor)
>
> Grigori Publications
>
> 2017
>
> http://suzanneanker.com/wp-content/uploads/02.pdf
>
> https://www.leonardo.info/review/2017/09/review-of-institutional-critique-to-hospitality-and-open-science-singularity-and
>
> Review of Susan Merril Squier's Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor, Leonardo.
>
> https://www.leonardo.info/review/2020/08/epigenetic-landscapes-drawings-as-metaphor
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