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• NEW BOOK •

GREENHOUSE STORIES. A CRITICAL RE-EXAMINATION OF TRANSPARENT MICROCOSMS (ONOMATOPEE – NL, 2023)

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Dear friends,



We're happy to share news about Greenhouse Stories. A Critical Re-examination of Transparent Microcosms, a book we just released with the Dutch publisher Onomatopee Projects (The Netherlands).



Featuring contributions by philosophers, growers, anthropologists, activists, scientists, historians, and artists, the publication presents reflections and suggestions to look critically at greenhouses from novel social, historical, environmental, and creative perspectives. Rather than celebrating them as technical prowesses or exceptional architectural feats, Greenhouse Stories is an attempt to unveil the multilayered identity of these instruments of vegetal containment and domestication, casting light on some of the controversies and opportunities they embed.



The book is the result of two years of work and is part of a broader investigation into greenhouses that we started in 2021. Below are more details about its contents. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.



Greetings from France,

Laura & Olivier

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Abstract

Architecturally speaking, the term ‘greenhouse’ refers to buildings designed to optimally protect, cultivate, and propagate plants under conditions that artificially reproduce their environments of origin. Employed successfully over centuries, these transparent microcosms have allowed some nations to improve their scientific knowledge, provide botanical education, and develop horticultural innovations. Parallel to the benefits they brought with them, greenhouses have also had – and still have – harmful consequences on the way we relate to others, both humans and other-than-humans, and the environments we co-inhabit with them. Shifting away from the celebration of greenhouses as technical prowesses and exceptional architectural feats, Greenhouse Stories is an invitation to look critically at greenhouses as controversial (agri)cultural production tools. Re-examining them from a social, historical, environmental, and creative perspective, the essays and interviews featured in this book highlight stories of vegetal displacement, colonial appropriation, and pollution. Yet they also help us to understand that greenhouses can be fertile spaces for women’s empowerment and the nurturing of socially engaged and eco-conscious projects. At a time of great anthropocentric pressure on the planet, we believe that questioning the greenhouse as a symbol and a tool can help us re-establish more humble and meaningful connections with the Earth and its living communities.

Authors & Contributors: Natalya Ayers, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Adriana Craciun, d-o-t-s, Charlène Flores, Monica Gagliano, Prudence Gibson, Fiona Inglis, Téa Laurent, Michael Marder, Coltrane McDowell, Joanna Moreno Michels, Claire Ratinon, Simon Ronceray, Penny Sparke, Kate Teltscher, Ken Walczak

Graphic design: Structure Bâtons

Proofreading: Deborah Tyler

Photography: Coltrane McDowell, Simon Lenskens, Charlène Flores, loop (Olly Cruise, Steve Ginepri, Services for Creatives, Mike Zenari)

Acknowledgements: the book was made possible by loop — down the hills, across the land (Esch 2022 – European Capital of Culture, Municipality of Sanem, Anna Loporcaro, Services for Creatives)

Greenhouse Stories. A Critical Re-examination of Transparent Microcosms is available in physical & online bookstores, and directly on Onomatopee’s website → https://t.ly/tqDm9

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Onomatopee 245

Greenhouse Stories: A Critical Re-examination of Transparent Microcosms

by d-o-t-s (Laura Drouet, Olivier Lacrouts), eds.
ISBN: 978-90-833621-0-6
Onomatopee Projects, Eindhoven NL

(Jesse Muller, Natasha Rijkhoff)

www.onomatopee.net

[No AI was used at any moment for the writing of this book]


Type: softcover
Dimensions: 160 mm x 220 mm

Pages: 220
Language: English
Release date: 23.10.2023
1st edition, 2023, 1250 copies
Printing: Printon, Tallin
Paper: Munken Print White 90g (inside); Munken Lynx 300g (cover)
Fonts: Media 77 (Optimo), Doodah (Structure Bâtons)

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d-o-t-s (Laura Drouet, Olivier Lacrouts)

www.studiodots.eu[email protected]@we_are_dots
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