ARCHITECTURE OF SENT
Flower District ; INTERSPECIES COLLABORATION
I am rearranging the flowers
I am rearranging the planet.
The scent of a landscape ; its journey and its presence among other species.
The flower district in Manhattan, when the shops are closed during night hours or whee in the morning, one can smell and recognize the species without seeing them, the landscape of flowers based on the sent alone.
The Perishability of landscapes being imported and consumed from a particular place and time.
They say cut Flowers stay alive for 7-12 days, the streets inhabit these Living landscapes offering insights into the living aspects of these flowers. A lot of them bloom one a year or sometimes even once in 10 years. The market becomes a place of keeping up with these ecological time cycles and embracing different transformations. The Violet and Pink Buddleia flowers kept outside the storefronts calls in bees to pollinate and discreetly buzz by the sidewalks alongside humans.
Spatial Sent environments opening up layers of plants and other species dialogues - redesign propositions for species that interact with other species like bees with flowers to integrate multi-species inhabitants in local urban conditions. Through further interventions, revealing production infrastructures and inviting perspectives and new imaginations for what interior exteriorities or rather what exterior interiorities could offer in the process of rewilding them.
Living beings, insofar as they are alive, are a becoming.
Rewilding the urban
Acts of Ephemeralization of space, inviting other species as collaborators to co-exist and rewild through planetary thinking. Perceiving walls around us as elemental, environmental, sonic, atmospheric and perpetually dissolving. Curating each flower species as an act of rearranging the planet ; an act of bringing more awareness.
These become performative ephemeral spaces, blend the threshold between inside and out, indoor domesticities to environmental landscapes, time and timelessness, measurable and immeasurable spaces. They act as portals for performers and audiences to explore different frameworks of simultaneity, plurality and transience.