Invasive Species in Florida

In Florida there are more than 1,300 exotic plant species established and reproducing outside cultivation. The Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council considers about 10 percent of these species invasive in natural areas and posing a significant threat to rare species.

Lygodium microphyllum -

Melaleuca quinquenervia- 

per·ma·cul·ture- the development of agricultural ecosystems intended to be sustainable and self-sufficient.

Could create a book- ABOUT INVASIVE SPECIES 

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

A six-episode series featuring the journey of America as the first nation to invent the idea of a National Park, and how that affected the pride of the nation, and the reverence to Nature. Features: Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska.

 " ...is a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy."





http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/

(ON NETFLIX) ✌️

Changes in Architectural Landscape: Fear, Commerce, and Urban Planning

Feeling welcome, or like you’re part of a community, is not just a sentiment, it’s an important aspect of safety too.... being surrounded by a narrative of loneliness: “The systemic issue is that we need to find a way to make people feel connected to each other.”


http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gun-control-isnt-working-so-were-turning-to-architects

Using the space as a away to control the viewer, similarly to how a board game acts, or a labyrinth. The time it takes for the viewer to get from one point to another will be affected which will affect awareness for the space that will be occupied.
           

http://www.etsav.upc.edu/locus/outputs/accessibility/perception/Architecture,%20Senses,%20Body%20and%20Perception.pdf

LAGI (Land Art Generator Initiative) is a project that shows how innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration, culture, and the expanding role of technology in art can help shape the aesthetic impact of renewable energy on our constructed and natural environments. This essay explains their solution-based social practice and energy art. I am also adding the link to their website if you are interested ;), where you can see more of their macro installations in the landscape. 

(Essay)

Public Art of the Sustainable City (2010)     

Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian

LAGI Founding Co-Directors

(Blog)

http://landartgenerator.org/blagi/     

(Website)

LAGI (Lahttp://www.landartgenerator.org/project.htmlnd Art Generator Initiative)   

Epcot´s Flowers & Garden Topiaries 2016 Walt Disney World Resort HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxPoVr7VWqk

I was looking at the flower arrangements of theme parks and came across this video about Disney's Flowers and Garden Fest.

I like the ideas of taking plant life and reforming it into another "life form", shifting the body into other bodies. The plants now have two forms. The video is cheese (the beginning cgi tour intro is so good in my opinion too, digital reproduction of real living reproductions" meta ) but I think there are a lot of solutions within the park set up like the bundles of floating plants in the water. The space/land feels natural but technological even in the geometry of the plant bases. Also the first image is of 3D printed forms -the use of tech and organics-  :")

Nancy Holt - Sun Tunnels

http://www.clui.org/ludb/site/sun-tunnels
http://umfa.utah.edu/suntunnels_selfguide
http://www.earthworks.org/tunnels.html


Sun Tunnels (1978) is a major work of Nancy Holt, located in the Great Basin Desert outside of Lucin, Utah. It is consisted of four concrete tunnels juxtaposed in a desolated area; each of them reacting to the sun differently through alignment with the sunrise, sunset, of the summer or winter solstice.

Chapter One - The Ethics of Earth Art

http://docdro.id/tWUfwYP

This is a PDF of the first chapter of The Ethic of Earth Arts by Amanda Boetzkes. It analyzes the development of the earth art movement, stating that artists are connected through their clarification of the earth as a domain of ethical concern. It's a contrast between the human world and the earth; how earth art mediates the sensations of nature while allowing nature itself to remain irreducible to human signification.

Maya Lin - A history of Water and other exhibitions

This link from the Orlando Museum of Art talks about some of Maya Lin's exhibitions. Although a lot of her work is geared towards environment change, I think her sensitivity to the ecological history of cities is something we should keep in mind, especially since Florida/South Florida is such a unique places ecologically, and also culturally and politically. In a History of Water, Lin makes sculptures resembling the shape of the rivers that runs under Midtown in Manhattan, and other relationships that the city has to bodies of water. The ecology of locations that become metropolitan areas becomes erased by the development of the city itself, which is ironic, as history shows that ecologically flourishing locations were vital to the initial developments of cities (e.g., Cairo, Paris, Shanghai, Rome, Buenos Aires, Mesopotamian cultures, New York, Miami, etc.). Pin River, Kissimmee is piece that she made regarding the history and changes of the Kissimmee River, it could be a good starting to get us to think about our own relationship with the land features of Miami.

http://omart.org/exhibitions/maya_lin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4wDmI-aL4M&spfreload=10

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