A Herbarium of the Garden City
Master of Architecture Thesis | Film Study
The Garden City model crafts a controlled and managed utopian state of nature as an idealised way to exist. The state’s curation of nature is a process selection and discrimination of plants that meet human-centric criteria. The thesis studies plants that do not qualify for the Garden City image but have proven then adaptability and versatility with human’s detrimental actions. They create their own versions of intimate and mega spectacles that oppose the current state’s version of nature spectacles as mega human-centric structures. These plants are often overlooked and seen as a nuisance, thus voiding their existence. Overtaken by the forces of nature yet still remaining traces of human intervention, the thesis aims to find a new kinship between plants and humans as such.
