Floating Green Designer: Ling Fan
Location: Shanghai, China
 The lawn represents social commonwealth, an urban substitute for the productive soil of the rural environment. An ambiguous surface, infill for urban designer’s master plans, palliative for the scourge of urban development. Green looks great filling the spaces between buildings on all those drawings, but once those lawns are seeded do we all have to “Keep Off!” Lawns are benign, hygienic, and controlled; they cover all the horror, squalor and uncertainty of the ground. Lawns are a tactic on the battlefield between power and democracy—occupying and sometimes, also inhabitable! → www.fatflatfloat.com Posted: 09/17/2009 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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