REASONINGS & WILD DESIRES
REASONINGS & WILD DESIRES
How strategies of urban green maintenance can cheapen relationships between humans and plants.
Undesirable plants are commonly called ‘weeds’ in gardening and maintenance practices. This book challenges the notion of undesirable plants by unpacking their histories - and sheds light on how capitalistic desires have established vicious systems that sustain today’s labor structures. In a time of ecological crises, cheap desires hidden in Dutch maintenance practices emphasize the urgency to rethink urban ecological maintenance.
Freja Kraemmer Nielsen is a Danish researcher and designer based in the Netherlands. Her work investigates the intersection of humans and ecosystems, art and science, critical thinking and making.
This little book ny Freja Emilie Kræmer Nielsen is the result of her residency at timelab and her Master Graduation in Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven (2023) under guidance of Nadine Botha and Head of Department Marina Otero Verzier.
Undesirable plants are commonly referred to as “weeds” in gardening and maintenance practices. The present work challenges this notion and sheds light on how capitalistic desires have established vicious systems that sustain today’s labor structures in urban maintenance.
