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From Edenic Apocalypse to Gardens Against Eden: Plants and People in and After the Anthropocene



See a video of Natasha Myers’s 2016 talk at UC Berkeley See a video of Natasha Myers’s 2016 talk at UC Berkeley and Myers, Natasha (2015) ‘Edenic Apocalypse: Singapore’s End-of-Time Botanical Tourism,’ in Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments, and Epistemologies, edited by Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin (Open Humanities Press)

In response to ongoing ecological catastrophes, artists, landscape architects, and conservationists are designing gardens with the hopes of restaging people’s relationships with plants. This project examines the aesthetics and politics of gardens that aim to demonstrate the interimplication of plants and people in these dire times