Rosetta Elkin - Autumn 2023 Baumer Lecture Series

Rosetta Elkin delivered the Baumer Lecture in the GUI Auditorium on 9/27/2023 at 5:30pm
Is planting a tree a political act? In this lecture, Elkin explores the basic parameters of what designers call species selection and why it matters, by describing some of the world's largest planting projects. The evidence reveals planting a tree can either be one of the ultimate offerings to thriving on this planet, or one of the most extreme perversions of human agency over it.