"Size 10 Spontaneous Urban Intervention"
Guerrilla Planting Proposal
Ink, graphite, colored pencil and paper
8.5 x 11”
Spontaneous vegetation nails a slam dunk in a pair of Nike Air Force 1’s, in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Seed mix: Achillea millefolium, Aster (Symphytrichum) pilosus, Cichorium intybus, Leucanthemum vulgare, Tanacetum vulgare, Rudbeckia hirta, Lotus corniculatus,Trifolium hybridum,Trifolium repens,Vicia cracca, Lolium perenne (based on Peter Del Tredici’s cosmopolitan urban meadow mix)
Bibliography
Del Tredici, Peter. Spontaneous Urban Vegetation : Reflections of Change in a Globalized World. Nature and Culture, 2010.
Kühn, Norbert. Intentions for the Unintentional Spontaneous Vegetation as the Basis for Innovative Planting Design in Urban Areas. Journal of Landscape Architecture, Berlin, Autumn 2006.
Jorgensen, Anna. The social and cultural context of ecological plantings. In: Dunnett, Nigel, and James Hitchmough (eds.), The Dynamic Landscape: Design, Ecology and Management of Naturalistic Urban Planting. London: Taylor & Francis, 2004.