With Plants,Thinking through Time:Seeking Practices of Slow Plant Knowledge
Landscape architects often focus on a model of seasonality for understanding how plants change through time.This article proposes that by drawing inspiration from Timothy Morton's use of a time lapse and by thinking about plants through the concept of temporality,there are opportunities to shift the way that landscape architects think about and design with plants.While this approach to planting design does not necessarily dictate a form,it does share many similarities with what has recently been called ecological or naturalistic planting.The article surveys two built works-Glenstone Museum and Brooklyn Bridge Park-to understand how temporality informed the designs.The article then proposes the development of practices of slow plant knowledge to inform design.