{"id":2572,"date":"2010-05-06T22:56:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T03:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2010-05-07T08:26:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T13:26:47","slug":"lo-fi-seed-dispersal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/05\/lo-fi-seed-dispersal\/","title":{"rendered":"lo-fi seed dispersal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2573\" title=\"greenaid\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/greenaid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/greenaid.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/greenaid-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[Prepared Greenaid seedbombs, awaiting dispersal; photograph by Fletcher Studio via <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablecitiescollective.com\/Home\/30530\"><em>Sustainable Cities Collective<\/em><\/a><em>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Design Under Sky<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designundersky.com\/dus\/2010\/4\/2\/fostering-modern-johnny-appleseeds.html\">wrote about this<\/a> a month or so ago, but given that we&#8217;re talking about the Los Angeles River, lo-fi landscape interventions, and that <a href=\"http:\/\/freeassociationdesign.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/02\/visual-histories-of-the-los-angeles-river-past-and-envisioned-futures\/#comment-244\">Brett Milligan brought it up again<\/a>, it&#8217;s probably worth taking a moment to mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1596001\/young-designers-want-to-create-a-generation-of-johnny-appleseeds\">Greenaid seedbomb dispensers<\/a>. \u00a0Designers Kim Karlsrud and Daniel Phillips (<a href=\"http:\/\/thecommonstudio.com\/index.php?\/project\/greenaid\/\">Common Studio<\/a>) partnered with David Fletcher (author of the chapter of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Infrastructural City<\/span> that we&#8217;ve been discussing this week) to retrofit old gumball machines with a stock of indigenous seed mixes prepared by Fletcher for various urban Los Angeles habitats, letting inclined Angelenos engage in anthropogenic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seed_dispersal\">seed dispersal<\/a> &#8212; perhaps, even, as <a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_RcgXG2wj27o\/S5mWIo8TXFI\/AAAAAAAABRA\/AhwR-qhjyGc\/s1600\/Fletcherstudio%2BWeb-Exhibitions-greenaids_Page_2.jpg\">Fletcher&#8217;s photomontages<\/a> suggest, within the concrete confines of the River.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps somewhat predicatably, though, I wonder if seedbombs prepared for the harsh conditions of the River&#8217;s upper reaches should be limited to &#8220;indigenous&#8221; species? \u00a0What, after all, does &#8220;indigenous&#8221; mean in such a thoroughly transformed condition? \u00a0As Fletcher says in <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/05\/the-parrot-the-weed-and-the-sludge-mat\/\">&#8220;Flood Control Freakology&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;the native versus exotic debate is oversimplified: the landscape assemblages should not be mistake as the cause of environmental degradation, when they are actually an ecologically appropriate result&#8230; Many of these infrastructural freakologies serve as green infrastructures, cleansing and processing excess nutrients, controlling erosion, and providing habitat which survives independent of human agency&#8230; Moreover, because soil and hydrologic conditions have so radically changed, native vegetation would require careful maintenance to survive.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What if the seedbombs contained the seeds of the <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/03\/future-forests-of-the-eastern-seaboard\/\">future forests of an infrastructural seaboard<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Prepared Greenaid seedbombs, awaiting dispersal; photograph by Fletcher Studio via Sustainable Cities Collective] Design Under Sky wrote about this a month or so ago, but given that we&#8217;re talking about the Los Angeles River, lo-fi landscape interventions, and that Brett Milligan brought it up again, it&#8217;s probably worth taking a moment to mention the Greenaid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[353,43,366],"tags":[356,390,367],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futures","category-landscape-architecture","category-mammoth-book-club","tag-invasive-species","tag-lo-fi-landscapes","tag-reading-the-infrastructural-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}