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  • The art of Chloris and the post-humanist sidewalks

    And yet, the goddess had been there.

    From the city of stagnant rivers, rare parks and concrete jungle gyms. “I, who now call myself Flora, was once Chloris: a Greek letter of my name has been altered in the Latin language”.

    “I, who now call myself Flora, was once Chloris: a Greek letter of my name has been altered in the Latin language”. Chloris, “nymph of the happy fields”, uninvited and parasitic, taking advantage of the winter rains, came to “awaken” the wild, indigenous urban flora, making it spring up wherever she could.

    In the cracks of broken sidewalks, in the joints of paving, in the crevices of different floors, in the folds, hollows and micro-angles of urban sidewalks, he set up an astonishing “nursery” of wild urban plants.

    From the point of view of the urban aesthetic of the perfect finish, the existence of these creatures is characteristic of the decline of public space planning.

    But perhaps from the point of view of a post-humanist and ecological urbanism, imperfect and fractured urban pavements, which give space to the earth and its creatures, constitute a remarkable hybrid model of a symbiotic aesthetic.

    Through various examples: architecture, such as Tsuneyama and Nousaku’s “Urban Wild Ecology”, art with Faye Zika’s “Versions of the Garden”, ecofeminism with Alice Walker’s “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” and others, the article explores design as a critical symbiotic process over time.

    Anthi Kosma. Abstract for “Art, Eroticism, Ecology”, 15-16 of May 2024 in ΝTUA

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