Agosto

"[M]elhorar o efeito estético da vegetação natural (...) na base das paredes, juntas e áreas" que favoreçam "espécies com características desejáveis" quer por serem rasteiras, resilientes ou "pela beleza das suas cores, as quais por sua vez também abafarão as espécies de características indesejadas." Quercus - Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza: Autarquias sem Glifosato/Herbicidas. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)

Improve

 

 "(...) any knowledge we have is dependent on the technology, circumstances, situations, and actions from which it was constructed. (...) knowing, doing, feeling, and making sense are inseparable. Pragmatism is a practical, consequential philosophy, a practice that is concerned with imagining and enriching as much as understanding. The test it sets itself is to improve things."John McCarthy & Peter Wright, 2004. Technology as experience. London, MIT Press. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)

Painting with Nature

"(...) it was nature herself who created the shapes and patterns (...) without the need for pruning shears; branches feathered down or twisted towards the sun; some trees grew so bushy that they were green barriers, while others were as delicate as ornamental lattice-work against the sky. (...) It was like painting with trees. The different hues of leaves, Miller said, should be like 'Lights and Shades in Pictures', while Collison described the way in which Petre used a tree's foliage, its texture, bark, height and shape, as his 'living pencils'." Andrea Wulf, 2009. The Brother Gardeners. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)