about this book

Plant Space: Territories, Architectures and Technologies of the Vegetal brings together eighteen international contributors working across critical theory, philosophy, art, design, architecture, and critical ecology to reimagine the role of plants in shaping the built environment and its overlapping economies and ecologies. Framed by the entangled histories of extraction, enclosure, and domestication, the volume approaches plants not as passive scenery or symbolic decoration, but as formative presences: agents of spatial composition, political tension, and new ways of knowing. Developed in the context of the exhibition Bordering Plants at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the book brings together essays and experimental formats that examine the infrastructures, colonial residues, and aesthetic regimes through which plant life is made visible, governable, or expendable. From houseplants, the imperial gardens of Vienna, and global plant trade to AI-rendered plants and satellite images used in herbicidal warfare, it explores the architectures, imaginaries, and techniques through which vegetal life is organised and resists.

This book was selected by Tique for Objects & Sounds.