"Tiny Taxonomy highlights the delicate beauty of mountain wildflowers and alpine perennials- common to rocky, high altitude environments."

Green Wall Infrastructure in China 

The Chinese '3-North Shelterbelt Program' is the largest afforestation program in the world, which positions a massive tree planting scheme as the solution to dust storms. This national strategy aims to plant over 40% of China land area, a scale that will not only convert local ecologies, but alter adjacent territories and regional weather patterns. Arid land afforestation highlights the tension between engineering infrastructures and cultivating healthy ecosystems, as planting is used as a mechanism for carrying out urban agendas, casting trees as agents in our stewardship over nature.

photographs with thanks to

http://www.georgesteinmetz.com

Tiny Taxonomy will be installed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA: Spring 2013. 

As part of the installation, Rosetta is invited to a public discussion with Charles Waldheim on June 6, 2013. Please join!

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Rosetta presented her research: "Planting the Desert: Cultivating Green Wall Infrastructure" at Technische Universitat Munchen, TUM Graduate School.

excerpt from the brief: 

"Similar to “classic” infrastructure of the industrial era, a discrepancy between technological progress and the quality of their spatial organization is also emerging in the “new” Green Infrastructure . The “green” engineering structures are being developed in sectoral planning processes for optimization of technical aspects and were situated afterwards—design considerations play a secondary role. This lack of so-called architectural culture is not only reduced  to the creative indifference of engineers and ecologists who develop their “design” from the logic of the relevant technology or remain as design laity in conventional patterns. They hardly possess the instruments to include greater spatial relationships in the design. The necessary interdisciplinary approach has to be initiated by architects, urban planners and landscape architects. However, designers who are dealing with urban and landscape reconstruction show a remarkable ignorance about innovations in the field of the “engineering science” ecology. This attitude hampers the use of innovative ecological approaches as well as new ideas for the design of human-natural systems – and a “relabeling” of the old concepts as infrastructure won’t change this."

Wageningen University. Review.

...a trip through Ghana- the Volta River Region and back to town of Almere in NL. A challenge to students to make connections in these disparate environments through studio work at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. 

Kaohsiung Port Station Urban Design Competition

rse is pleased to announce the ongoing support of Fonds BKVB. The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, known in the Netherlands as Fonds BKVB, is the national body responsible for enabling visual artists, designers, architects and cultural mediators to develop their work in a variety of ways. All the grant options and activities of the Fonds BKVB are dedicated, each in its own way, to promoting the contemporary visual arts, design and architecture in the Netherlands. The Fonds BKVB is financed by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and is an autonomous foundation with an independent decision-making process.