讓心裡的缺口長出綠芽──寫給城市綠地的療癒系情書啟動自我身心覺察，成為自己的情緒園丁人類跟植物一樣，可以在自己的美好時光裡修復和成長植栽療癒 X 千禧世代 X 城市觀察「早已有無數世代為了尋求城市裡的炫目財富，離開童年居住的鄉村。我們並非是最先這麼做的人。但最終，土地呼喚著我們回歸。而我們發現自己正在尋找，一個能帶來療癒的綠色空間……」★《獨立報》、《金融時報》、《i》、《Gardens Illustrated》年度選書★ 2020年英國溫萊特自然寫作獎入圍-------------------------------------------------------------當愛麗絲還是個小女孩時，她最喜歡爺爺的花園──自由、靜謐而美麗。20年後，住在倫敦南部一間狹小公寓裡的愛麗絲，花園裡的童年時光感覺就像一場夢。她發現自己內心空洞、滿身傷痕。過著行李箱生活卻冀望著家的溫暖的她，開始學習種植。她在窗台跟排水板上培育盆栽跟藤蔓，讓她的新空間充滿綠色。她的心境隨著植物一起，歷經四季枯榮。看著一片片綻開的花瓣跟嫩葉，她感覺獲得重生。在這個運轉得過於快速的世界裡，本書將幫助我們找到自己的根。-------------------------------------------------------------★是成長誌，是植物史，也是寫給城市綠地的情書植栽有助於讓人恢復健康，是從事植栽者所熟知的一項事實；但是，對那些不熟悉土壤、根部、以及生長的人來說，植栽的療癒力量宛如天啟。這本書述說了植物與大自然如何使一個女人在深受創傷的分手後康復，同時更教會她如何連結起自己的過去，以定義她即將蛻變成的那一個人。作者愛麗絲．文森的筆觸著實優美，她將自己個人與家庭的故事、更廣泛的女權主題、如何放慢腳步學習正確看待事物、植物史以及實用園藝建議等等融為一體的方式，令人深受啟發。一部分是成長誌，一部分是植物史，一部分是她寫給倫敦綠地的情書。★千禧世代植栽熱潮，女性與植物的緊密關係愛麗絲拆解了她自己，以及她的世代對植物的執迷──即便是在狹小、沒有庭院、租來的公寓中，對植栽的熱情與熱潮仍是不減反增。Instagram 上滿是精心設計的美麗盆栽，結合綠化植栽的服飾店、書店或餐廳，以及市集裡販售的上千種植栽玻璃容器與仙人掌。我們正逐漸朝向將植物當成「緩
As an investigative journalist, Monbiot found a mission in his ecological boredom, that of learning what it might take to impose a greater state of harmony between himself and nature. He was not one
Challenging the dominant design paradigm that centres humanity in its practice, Designing for Interdependence puts forward an ecocentric mode of designing that privileges a harmonious relationship between all life forms that share our planet. This book is about the practice of designing and design’s capacity to relate (or not) to beings of all kinds, human and others, in ways that are life-affirming. Sensitive to power differentials and the responsibility that this entails, Martín Ávila develops the notion of alter-natives, a concept that exposes the alterity of artificial things and the potential of these things to participate in the sustainment of natural environments. Proposing a design practice that encompasses humans, artificial things and other-than-human species in a 'poetics of relating', Ávila provides practices that support the rewilding necessary to maintaining cultural and biological diversity and the stabilization of planetary dynamics. The book features real-life projec
Challenging the dominant design paradigm that centres humanity in its practice, Designing for Interdependence puts forward an ecocentric mode of designing that privileges a harmonious relationship between all life forms that share our planet. This book is about the practice of designing and design’s capacity to relate (or not) to beings of all kinds, human and others, in ways that are life-affirming. Sensitive to power differentials and the responsibility that this entails, Martín Ávila develops the notion of alter-natives, a concept that exposes the alterity of artificial things and the potential of these things to participate in the sustainment of natural environments. Proposing a design practice that encompasses humans, artificial things and other-than-human species in a 'poetics of relating', Ávila provides practices that support the rewilding necessary to maintaining cultural and biological diversity and the stabilization of planetary dynamics. The book features real-life projec
