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- 26 mai 2023
- Publié par : Anouar SMAHI
- Catégorie : Non classé
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How much attention to you pay to the plants in your surroundings? Studies suggest that you’re more likely to notice the dog passing you by on the sidewalk than the tree you’re both walking under.
This visual archive is a way of training myself to become more aware of the plants living around me and connecting my findings to my research about urban natures of the past. It’s my way of inspiring myself and others to become less ‘blind’ to plants.
The term plant blindness was coined by botanists Elizabeth Schussler and James Wandersee in 1998 to describe “the inability to see or notice the plants in one’s own environment.” Plant blindness doesn’t just affect our perception though. It also leads us to consider plants as inferior living beings and to underestimate their role in our own lives.
Plant blindness is arguably more of a cultural phenomenon though than an inherent feature of the human brain. Meaning that it’s something that can be corrected – both on an individual and on a societal level. The process of writing plants and green spaces into the urban past can be one way of achieving such a shift in perception. By understanding that urban plant life has its own rich history, we can become more appreciative of the nature we still find in cities today.
#plantblindness #plantblindnessawareness #lookcloser #urbannature #greencity #plantlife #historylovers #landscapehistory #cityofnature #urbanecology #urbanexplorer
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