My new friend Sarah Lewison told me about her design of The Tenderloin National Forest.
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Brilliant right? It reminds me of my Ph.D student Kate Corder's work. It's directly intervening in social space and it's subversive of the tired avant garde politics of shock. Instead, we have an aesthetic of care and a vibrant plenum of beings, lifeforms, lights, stone.
Read the mission statement: it's genius. Note: it's a whole new species, not like an avant garde manifesto at all...
this is wonderful! but i have to add I didn't "design" it.. rather it is that at a critical juncture, I added dirt, which had its own design thing going. it is more like a (r)evolutionary process that i participated in.. go visit when you go to sf!
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