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RSE_Tiny Taxonomy COVER 2017

"In Review: Landscapes of Retreat" by Geoff Manaugh (Arnoldia)

"In Review: Landscapes of Retreat" by Geoff Manaugh (Arnoldia)

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Plant Life 

The Entangled Politics of Afforestation. (University of Minnesota Press) 

2023 winner of the On the Brinck Book Award

University of Minnesota Press

Barnes & Noble

 

"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

Barnes & Noble

 

"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

Barnes & Noble

 

"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

Barnes & Noble

 

"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

Barnes & Noble

 

"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)

Harvard Book Store

Barnes & Noble

William Stout Architectural Books

Tiny Taxonomy

Individual Plants in Landscape Architecture. (Actar)

Harvard Book Store

Barnes & Noble

William Stout Architectural Books

Articles

"Narratives at the Margins of Extinction" (Arnoldia)

"Narratives at the Margins of Extinction" (Arnoldia)

"Nature Without Ecology" Piet Oudolf at Work. (Landscape Arcitecture Magazine)

"The Living Environment" Or, Designers Are Stuck in the Holocene. (New Geographies)

"The Timber Culture Act" - Chapter 4, Confronting Treelessness, in Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation. (Arnoldia)

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"Practice Landscape" (PLAT 11)

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"Tabula Rasa" Designing South Florida. (OASE 110)

"An Impermanent Inventory" Plant Collections for a Changing Climate. (Arnoldia)

"In Defense of Forsythia"

"In Defense of Forsythia"

"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 Future of the Future - The Design-Research of Sponsland." (Archined)

"A Walk Through Time, Part I" - A guided walk at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

"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)

"Dryland Forests" - Desertification and the rise of defense ecology. (Portal 9)

"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

Practice Landscape: "Experiments in Practice" Landscape architects seek novel solutions to navigate tricky regulations. By Timothy A. Schuler. (Landscape Architecture Magazine)

The Croft Garden (Landezine)

Resources

LandBasedLearning_NatureofHopeBiennale_Website

"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 

PracticeLandscape_HowtoGrowaShoreline_Website

"Manual: How to grow a shoreline."

(Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation)

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Print: 8.5x11" (5.5x8.5" Pages)

"Manual: How to grow a shoreline."

(Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation)

View or download

Print: 8.5x11" (5.5x8.5" Pages)

PracticeLandscape_StackManual_Website

"Stack: How to build a stacked wall to reuse material and make soil."

(Chicago Architecture Biennial)

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Print: 8.5x11" (5.5x8.5" Pages)

"Stack: How to build a stacked wall to reuse material and make soil."

(Chicago Architecture Biennial)

View or download

Print: 8.5x11" (5.5x8.5" Pages)

Tree_Catalogue_MtAuburn_2014-2017_UPLOAD

"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.