What is the concept of “plant blindness”? How can the arts help us to appreciate different timescales and plants’ ways of being?

What is the concept of “plant blindness”? How can the arts help us to appreciate different timescales and plants’ ways of being?
The dream of Herzegovina as California has been around for as long as I remember. It first appeared in Yugoslavia as an industrial and entrepreneurial vision of a landscape that could provide us with everything, provided we were sufficiently entrepreneurial. But it was also an image of a place of rest, where little is needed to enjoy life, in which case industrialisation may be unnecessary.
The Philippines’ Baguio: from an indigenous pastureland to a colonial hill station and now a bustling tourism center grappling with environmental challenges and Indigenous land disputes on its 115th founding anniversary.
Inheritance can have far-reaching consequences that extend beyond the family unit, shaping not only society and economy but also the environment.
In 1874 Sarah Brooks, with her mother and brother, walked nearly 700 kilometers out to the land of the Noongar people in the south-eastern extremities of the South-west Australian Floristic Region. It is still unclear how and why Sarah, an educated, accomplished, single woman, spent the last fifty-four years of her life out in this isolated place.
Museums developed and funded by European colonization often grapple with the morally blurry lines between public education and neocolonial exploitation. Elephant tusk — otherwise known as ivory — is embedded in these politics of historical display.
The world we have constructed appears to be hurtling towards disaster, if not outright oblivion.
Bologna, 2018. The odor of seriousness hung heavy in the reading room of the archives.