19 BOTANIC
Published: Spring 2024
LA+ BOTANIC explores our evolving relationship with plants with contributions that reflect on the many natures and relations that are being materialized in plant conservation, botanic gardens, and botanic art today. A wide range of topics is covered, including plant conservation efforts and the challenges posed by global heating and extinction, the limited plant choices imposed by the horticultural industry, and the many representations of plants found in visual, material, textual, and architectural works. Edited by Karen M’Closkey, contributors include Giovanni Aloi, Irus Braverman, Patrick Blanc, Xan Sarah Chacko, Sonja Dümpelmann, Jared Farmer, Annette Fierro, Matthew Gandy, Ursula K. Heise, Andrea Ling, Janet Marinelli, Beronda L. Montgomery, Catherine Mosbach, Katja Grötzner Neves and Bonnie-Kate Walker.
Katja Grötzner Neves
Sonja Dümpelmann
Bonnie-Kate Walker
Janet Marinelli
Irus Braverman
Xan Sarah Chacko
Andrea Ling
Karen M’Closkey
Matthew Gandy
Beronda L. Mongomery
Karen M’Closkey
Karen M'Closkey
Annette Fierro
Karen M'Closkey
Ursula K Heise
“The Changing Nature of Botanic Gardens
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“Spiraling Diversity and Blank Spots in a 19th-Century Utopian Botanic Garden”
“Garden of Relation: Drawing the Climatic
Intelligence of Plants
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“Plants on the Move
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“Green Gold: The Akkoub's Settler Ecologies
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“The Vault Is a Bunker, The Arsenal Are Seeds
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“Design(ed) Decay
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“In Conversation with Giovanni Aloi
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“Forensic Ecologies and the Botanical City
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“Botanic Lessons from the Prairie”
“In Conversation with Jared Farmer
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“In Conversation with Patrick Blanc +
Catherine Mosbach
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“Conceits and Constructs: Vegetal Architecture
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“Plant Samples”
“Smart Plants and the Challenges of Multispecies Narrative ”
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Karen M’Closkey
Catherine Seavitt
Karen M’Closkey
Colin Curley
Andreina Sojo
Ryan Franchak
Xinyu Liu
Maura McDaniel
Zhijie Wang
