Landscapes of Retreat
Portraits of Climate Adaptation. (K. Verlag)
2024 winner of the J.B. Jackson Book Award
Plant Life
The Entangled Politics of Afforestation. (University of Minnesota Press)
2023 winner of the On the Brinck Book Award
"The Mass-Produced Forest: A review of Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation byRosetta S. Elkin." By Jennifer Wolch. (Landscape Architecture Magazine)
"Matthan on Elkin, 'Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation.'"
By Tanya Matthan. (H-Environment)
"Knock on Wood: Solutions don’t always grow in trees."
By John Baglow (Literary Review of Canada)
Plant Life
The Entangled Politics of Afforestation. (University of Minnesota Press)
2023 winner of the On the Brinck Book Award
University of Minnesota Press
"The Mass-Produced Forest: A review of Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation by Rosetta S. Elkin." By Jennifer Wolch. (Landscape Architecture Magazine)
"Matthan on Elkin, 'Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation.'" By Tanya Matthan. (H-Environment)
"Knock on Wood: Solutions don’t always grow in trees." By John Baglow (Literary Review of Canada)
Plant Life
The Entangled Politics of Afforestation. (University of Minnesota Press)
2023 winner of the On the Brinck Book Award
University of Minnesota Press
"The Mass-Produced Forest: A review of Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation by Rosetta S. Elkin." By Jennifer Wolch. (Landscape Architecture Magazine)
"Matthan on Elkin, 'Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation.'" By Tanya Matthan. (H-Environment)
"Knock on Wood: Solutions don’t always grow in trees." By John Baglow (Literary Review of Canada)
Plant Life
The Entangled Politics of Afforestation. (University of Minnesota Press)
2023 winner of the On the Brinck Book Award
University of Minnesota Press
"The Mass-Produced Forest: A review of Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation by Rosetta S. Elkin." By Jennifer Wolch. (Landscape Architecture Magazine)
"Matthan on Elkin, 'Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation.'" By Tanya Matthan. (H-Environment)
"Knock on Wood: Solutions don’t always grow in trees." By John Baglow (Literary Review of Canada)
Plant Life
The Entangled Politics of Afforestation.
(University of Minnesota Press)
2023 winner On the Brinck Award
University of Minnesota Press
"The Mass-Produced Forest: A review of Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation by Rosetta S. Elkin." By Jennifer Wolch. (Landscape Architecture Magazine)
"Matthan on Elkin, 'Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation.'" By Tanya Matthan. (H-Environment)
"Knock on Wood: Solutions don’t always grow in trees." By John Baglow (Literary Review of Canada)
Tiny Taxonomy
Individual Plants in Landscape Architecture. (Actar)
Tiny Taxonomy
Individual Plants in Landscape Architecture. (Actar)
Articles
"Mien Ruys: The Mother of Modernist Gardens" (Landscape Architecture Magazine)
"Narratives at the Margins of Extinction" (Arnoldia)
"Nature Without Ecology" Piet Oudolf at Work. (Landscape Architecture Magazine)
Read
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"Practice Landscape" (PLAT 11)
"Tabula Rasa" Designing South Florida. (OASE 110)
"Wild Rice Waters" - Recovering the St. Louis River Estuary through the practice of wild rice harvest. (Places Journal)
"Wild Rice Waters" - Recovering the St. Louis River Estuary through the practice of wild rice harvest. (Places Journal)
"Wild Rice Waters" - Recovering the St. Louis River Estuary through the practice of wild rice harvest. (Places Journal)
"Wild Rice Waters" - Recovering the St. Louis River Estuary through the practice of wild rice harvest. (Places Journal)
"The Politics of the Rhizosphere" - Rosetta S. Elkin talks to Anna Tsing about partnering, pathogens, and profit. (Harvard Design Magazine)
"Live Matter" - Reorienting and recognizing plants for their aliveness. (JOLA)
"Live Matter" - Reorienting and recognizing plants for their aliveness. (JOLA)
"The Prefixes of Forestation" - Questioning legacies that convert biomes from desert to forest and from forest back to field. (Harvard Design Magazine)
"Editing Pedagogy" - Foregoing the obvious to explore the nuances, the connections, and the materials that amalgamate across scales.
"Planting Coastal Infrastructure" - Moving beyond restoration to dissolve the limiting dichotomy between green and grey infrastructure. (Climate Change Management)
"Plant Life" - Rosetta S. Elkin talks to Stephannie Fell and Francisco Quintana about "plant blindness." (ARQ)
"Plant Life: The Practice of 'Working Together'" - How novel spatial practices can help us shed the perception of plant fixity. (New Geographies)
"Plant Life: The Practice of 'Working Together'" - How novel spatial practices can help us shed the perception of plant fixity. (New Geographies)
"A Perspective on Taxonomy" - Exploring the origins of natural classification. (Actar)
"Planting the Desert" - Highlighting the tension between engineering infrastructure and cultivating healthy ecosystems. (Revising Green Infrastructure)
"From Empire to Ecology" - How acknowledging plant's independent behavior can help us untangle assumptions of the Anthropocene. (America Academy in Rome)
"Retreat vs. Rebuild" - A collection of prompts and papers framing the Retreat vs. Rebuild colloquium.
Press
Resources
"Instructions for Land-Based Learning"
Everything Change. (IABR)
Rosetta S. Elkin, Phoebe Lickwar
Collaboration with students at the Pratt Institute and University of Texas, Austin
"Instructions for Land-Based Learning"
Everything Change. (IABR)
Rosetta S. Elkin, Phoebe Lickwar
Collaboration with students at the Pratt Institute and University of Texas, Austin
"Instructions for Land-Based Learning"
Everything Change. (IABR)
Rosetta S. Elkin, Phoebe Lickwar
Collaboration with students at the Pratt Institute and University of Texas, Austin
"Instructions for Land-Based Learning"
Everything Change. (IABR)
Rosetta S. Elkin, Phoebe Lickwar
Collaboration with students at the Pratt Institute and University of Texas, Austin
"Manual: How to grow a shoreline."
(Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation)
Print: 8.5x11" (5.5x8.5" Pages)
"Manual: How to grow a shoreline."
(Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation)
Print: 8.5x11" (5.5x8.5" Pages)
"Stack: How to build a stacked wall to reuse material and make soil."
(Chicago Architecture Biennial)
Print: 8.5x11" (5.5x8.5" Pages)
"Stack: How to build a stacked wall to reuse material and make soil."
(Chicago Architecture Biennial)
Print: 8.5x11" (5.5x8.5" Pages)
"Index of Formation: A plant catalogue of individual trees at Mt. Auburn Cemetery."
Collaboration with students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
"Index of Formation: A plant catalogue of individual trees at Mt. Auburn Cemetery."
Collaboration with students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
"Index of Formation" - A plant catalogue of individual trees at Mt. Auburn Cemetery. (GSD Student Collaboration)
"Index of Formation: A plant catalogue of individual trees at Mt. Auburn Cemetery."
Collaboration with students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.