student work, gardens, artists

hello dear classmates,


 [Plants]

1. Crack Garden
Inspiration: Steve Wheen the pothole gardener, Landscape architecture firm CMG ,  
Idea: find potholes and concrete cracks in the city and fill them with plants, 
Materials: cracks in the sidewalk, pothole in the street, plants
Collaboration potential: PHS,  landscape architects, graphic designers, willing building owners,  artists, students

CMG Landscape Architecture

Steve Wheen London Pothole Gardener

2. Moss Graffiti
Inspiration: a fellow student told me about it, MOSS Graffiti
Idea: Make awesome and beautiful 'graffiti' with plants
Materials: moss, walls


Collaboration potential: PHS, graphic designers, willing building owners,  artists, students

3. Learn Cultural History through Plants

Inspiration: I buy glass jars and collect them because they are beautiful and I don't want to throw them away, Terrariums are beautiful, These artists: installation artist Andre Woodward, Designer Kristyna Pojerova, Mathieu Lehaneur

Andre Woodward

Kristyna Pojerova

Mathieu Lehaneur

Idea: I don't have space for a garden, just a lot of glass jars. So one day I decided to make my own terrariums and I went to Penn's biopond and then Woodlands Cemetery and dug up plants. Maybe you could make terrariums made of plants from different parks, gardens, and cemeteries in Philadelphia, then showcase them, telling the history of the city through miniature landscapes. The idea of promoting Philadelphia's history and green space.

Collaboration potential: Landscape architects, PHS, graphic designers, historians, artists

Terrariums made from glass jars, and plants stolen from Penn's Bio Pond and Woodlands Cemetery

4. Paulownia Tree Poster Campaign/ Map/ Find Paulownia Trees
Inspiration: Paulownia Trees grow in the most hostile environments in Philadelphia, they are strange looking as saplings, a book "Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast" by Peter Del Tredici 

Idea: This year I have been introduced to Paulownia Trees, and now everywhere I see these amazing trees happily growing in the strangest places. In an effort to uncover the relationship between the way urban citizens view wild un-managed plants,  I think somehow caricaturing these trees would reveal the intrepid reality of wilds plants and their importance to our urban ecology.

Collaboration potential: Landscape architects, PHS, graphic designers, urban explorers 

paulownia tree

paulownia tree

paulownia tree

paulownia tree