{"id":6023,"date":"2011-12-06T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2011-12-06T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:28:49","slug":"signs-for-naturalized-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/signs-for-naturalized-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"signs for naturalized areas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n[“Signs for Naturalized Areas”<\/a>, from Windsor, Ontario’s Broken City Lab; the signs were installed in the summer of 2009<\/a>, after a city workers’ strike left various vacant lots unmowed and teeming with accidental plant communities.\u00a0 The emergent flora were apparently commonly viewed negatively, as a symbol of the political conflict surrounding the workers’ strike; the project aimed to invert that understanding, and suggest that citizens might instead view them as “wonderful additions to [the] urban landscape”.]<\/em><\/p>\n

“Signs for Naturalized Areas” strike me as particularly interesting in light of my post from last week on “hypothetical signs”<\/a>, as, like both the Hypothetical Development Organization and G\u00f6k\u00e7eo\u011flu’s mayoral campaign, these are also an example of signs-as-(landscape)-architecture.\u00a0 The difference here, though, is that while both the HDO and G\u00f6k\u00e7eo\u011flu’s photoshops used signs as a means for publishing an architectural proposal — a story about how a place might be constructed differently — Broken City Lab used signs to advertise an extant but hitherto invisible quality of the landscape. These signs reveal, rather than inventing. (It is perhaps not a coincidence that the artists working in landscape utilize this mode of operation, while the HDO and G\u00f6k\u00e7eo\u011flu, working with buildings, operate in the other.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[“Signs for Naturalized Areas”, from Windsor, Ontario’s Broken City Lab; the signs were installed in the summer of 2009, after a city workers’ strike left various vacant lots unmowed and teeming with accidental plant communities.\u00a0 The emergent flora were apparently commonly viewed negatively, as a symbol of the political conflict surrounding the workers’ strike; the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,43,397],"tags":[672,117,250,669],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-landscape","category-landscape-architecture","category-the-expanded-field","tag-emergent-flora","tag-field-guides","tag-flora","tag-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023","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=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6049,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions\/6049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}