Greenhouse Stories. A Critical Re-examination of Transparent Microcosms

Title: Greenhouse Stories. A Critical Re-examination of Transparent Microcosms
Published by: Onomatopee, Eindhoven
Release Date: 2023
Contributors: Laura DROUET, Olivier LACROUTS
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Pages: 219
ISBN13: 978-90-833621-0-6

8.990 HUF

 

Shifting away from the celebration of greenhouses as technical mastery and exceptional architectural feats, Greenhouse Stories is an invitation to critically look at greenhouses as controversial (agri)cultural production tools. Re-examining them from a social, historical, environmental and creative perspective, the essays and interviews featured in this book highlight stories of vegetal displacement, colonial appropriation and pollution. Yet they also help us to understand that greenhouses can be fertile spaces for women's empowerment and the nurturing of socially-engaged and eco-conscious projects. At a time of great anthropocentric pressure on the planet, we believe that questioning the greenhouse as a symbol and a tool can help us re-establish more humble and meaningful connections with the Earth and its living communities.