In All the Places: MLA capstone book by Aubrey Olson

IN ALL the PLACES

Aubrey Olson, 2022 Capstone Book

“Sometimes since I’ve been in the garden I’ve looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.” -Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

CONTENTS Background + Research Questions Walking

Imagination Psychogeography Floriography Research Question

Layering History of Site Finding Place

Broadway + Central Understanding the Past Ways of Navigating the Landscape Three Layers of Site

Earth Emotion Floriography Floriography in the Landscape Method Typologies and Emotions

Selected Gardens The Hub Satellite Gardens Engagement

“Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.” -Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

BACKGROUND + RESEARCH QUESTIONS

WALKING I had always grown up walking. Walking with my family after dinner in the summertime to enjoy the coolness of dusk, walking with friends throughout college to catch up on our way to class, or walking my sweet dog, Bandit, rain or shine. Walking didnt become an active practice for me until the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when I would truly, and selfishly, take walks for me, to get out of the cramped apartment, and feel connected to others and part of my community during a time of social isolation.

Living Streets Walking Manifesto Walking is good for our minds, our bodies, and our cities, towns and villages. It connects us to ourselves and to others, to education, to economic and social life. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, millions of people rediscovered the simple act of walking – the oldest, cheapest and greenest transport there is. They rediscovered their local high streets, walked to local shops and around parks, canals, commons and rivers. But millions still struggle with narrow, cluttered, uneven pavements; crossings that prioritise cars rather than people; and growing numbers of speeding vehicles.

Exploring my Neighborhood Through my daily walks I found wonder and magic in these often very mundane spots or overlooked parts of the city- after seeing ghost signage and remnants from previous eras I was transported and imagined how these spaces were activated and used juxtaposed with how I was seeing them in the present. I had these beautiful wonderful and strange emotions stir up as I walked though these auto-centered arteries, and as I would find respite in offshoot, quieter streets seeing the materiality and details of change over time. What or who has changed and what has remained the same.

IMAGINATION Imagination is Magical

A child’s imagination is truly inspirational. The mundane becomes magical, inspiring wonder and sparking joy to imagine the endless possibilities of the world around us.

Stimulates Creativity and Innovation

by thinking outside of the box and allowing imaginations the freedom to grow and expand for creative problem solving, there is room for collaboration as well as sustainable innovation in material and use of spaces and products

Imagine a Better Future

Change starts with imagining a possibility. By imagining what a space could be, it starts the conversation for making it happen.

Kate Farquhar

Vagrant Language communicate safety and environment to other people through time in the same space Language of Flowers express thoughtful and deep emotions to other people using the intuitive aspects of flowers (personifying them to human emotion)

Communication using the Environment symbolic secrets human to human about human experiences

Exploration into precedent knowledge and methods

Psychogeography

Earth Emotions for a Modern World by Glenn Albrecht

Floriography

Psychogeography

Earth Emotions

Floriography

THE WANDER SOCIETY: a case study Through independant adventures and urban exploreing, the direct human experiences have been diluted and dulled through mass media and our excess use of technology. Senses are dulled through seeing the world through screens rather than through the physical body. TWS seeks to deepen our connections with eachother, the world, and ourselves. life outside the commercial world built on direct experiences , not second hand representations of reality.

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY The Flaneur and the priveliged jaunt though the city psy·cho·ge·og·ra·phy (noun)

The geographical environment of a particular location, typically a city, considered with regard to its influence on the mind or on behavior. As an practice, psychogeography is the exploration of urban environments that emphasizes interpersonal connections to places and arbitrary routes, and follows a loosely defined urban practice known as the dérive.

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CONTEMPORARY FLANEUR Flaneur exists everywhere in contemporary society. Nowadays it isn’t limited to walking around alone and observing people, but everyone, with the modern technology and the expansion of social networking. People are documenting what they see and feel during a certain time and posting it for their friends to see. This, is an example of Flaneur; seeing things and documenting it in a modern way.

EXCLUSIONARY IN NATURE This practiceis yet another way for social pressures, unrealistic social norma, as well as a nonstop feeling of keeping up with the Jones’s today, its constrictions in a world with walls and where migrants are unable to drift freely.

CONTRADICTIONS IN APPROACH emotional experience is of course resulting in the very thing that it seeks to record, this being subjectivity. How might one objectively (the very notion of science demands that it be objective) record the emotional effects of a place upon an individual? This is something that Debord had considered, his solution being setting out on a derive in a group ‘of two or three people who have reached the same level of awareness’[7] in order that they might confer and come to a more objective conclusion of the particular aura of the zones encountered.

Psychogeography

Earth Emotions

Floriography

Earth Emotions for a Modern World Glenn Albrecht

Earth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author’s concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia—love of life—for our home planet. To do so, he proposes a dramatic change from the current human-dominated Anthropocene era to one that will be founded, materially, ethically, politically, and spiritually on the revolution in thinking being delivered by contemporary symbiotic science. Albrecht names this period the Symbiocene. a framework within which to understand and acknowledge the dissociation of humans from the living world. With a new language and means of expression, a wider array of stories from diverse voices can hopefully be heard The purpose of these terms is two fold: first, to allow people make better sense of themselves and of their relationship with the planet; second, to encourage development of a more meaningful and optimistic outlook toward the planet.

Psychogeography

Earth Emotions

Floriography

The long-lasting floriography fad was set off by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a feminist poet married to the English ambassador to Turkey. Letters she wrote home from Constantinople in 1717 and 1718 not only argued in favor of smallpox inoculation, but included an enthusiastic description of the Turkish selam (“hello”)—a secret flower language used by clever harem women to communicate under the noses of their guards. According to Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, an Austrian translator who penned early studies of the Ottoman empire, Montagu either misunderstood or romanticized a popular rhyming game of the time—but when Montagu’s collected Turkish embassy letters were published in 1763, the idea of a flower code quickly caught on with a fashionably Orientalist circle of educated readers. The exotic East, full of strange customs and decadence, was a powerful subject for upper-class fantasy—all the more so if it might be a source of forbidden knowledge, or a proxy for discussion of women’s repression back home. Whether Montagu had mischaracterized selam was beside the point. Harems were sexy; flowers were sexy; secret messages between lovers were extra sexy. The public wanted in. Like any symbol-based code, part of the appeal was deniability: in some flower dictionaries, the white cardamines I wore to my father’s wedding mean “paternal error”, while other dictionaries say they mean “ardor.” (I just thought they were fresh and lovely.) In the 1890s, Oscar Wilde famously asked his friends and supporters to wear green carnations which he simultaneously hinted would represent homosexuality and claimed had no meaning at all. Between 1827 and 1923, there were at least 98 different flower dictionaries in circulation in the United States, and flower code was regularly discussed in magazines like Harper’s and The Atlantic. It spread way beyond actual flower bouquets, and into literature and fine art. Jane Austen and Emily Dickinson—both gardeners as well as authors—used the language of flowers in not only their writing, but their personal letters. Pre-Raphaelites relished the ability to add floral symbolism to paintings that already drew on mythic themes; Rossetti’s “Lady Lilith” might look sensual, but the white roses behind her belie a disinterest in carnality, while the poppies and foxgloves beside her suggest she’s sleepy, forgetful, and insincere. However, actually creating or deciphering a physical bouquet required an unusual set of circumstances— ones mostly restricted to the extreme upper class.

Psychogeography

Earth Emotions

Floriography

It is fitting that a poet helped to popularise floriography. The Victorian language of flowers has more in common with verse than prose. Meanings are ambiguous, evolving within the contexts of how flowers are arranged, wrapped and gifted, to whom they are gifted, and the particular way they are combined. Oscar Wilde, the noted Victorian wit, once asked his friends to wear green carnations – a decision which he suggested would both represent homosexuality, and yet convey no meaning at all. Floral arrangements, like verse, can have rhythm – the eye passes over an arrangement in particular ways, dictated by the shape of its composition. Each element the eye focuses on is a beat within the wider score of the arrangement itself. Likewise, a floral arrangement has tone: vibrant colours, as well as the themes and motifs that accompany certain blooms convey emotional content and a range of meanings.

How to craft a secret message in your Tussie-Mussie: They had a silent meaning of their very own, and could say what was not dared to be spoken. Even the manner in which flowers were sent had a special meaning. A flower presented in an upright position represented a positive thought; whereas one presented in the opposite direction had a negative meaning. Also, a person could say “yes” by offering a flower with the right hand, the left hand “no.” Dictionaries were written to explain this language to all, and were especially used by lovers. One could learn that roses symbolized love, in general but each variety and color had their own meaning. The lily generally symbolized beauty, but it also has many varieties, thus many diversified meanings. Consider the quandary that could have developed if lover’s used two different dictionaries, with each possibly having its own connotation. There could be some real misunderstandings!

Psychogeography

Earth Emotions

Floriography

RESEARCH QUESTION How do landscape designs communicate a story of place through an urban neighborhood garden system, using plantings to connect people to themselves and the environment.

considerations: For a high renting population, how does one connect with the place and community? what are the ‘constants’ that allow long time residents to feel at home, what are the characteristics of space?

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees” -Henry David Thoreau

LAYERING HISTORY the site

FINDING PLACE

Minnesota

lakes, rivers, and forests, as well as its city centers of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

City of Minneapolis

Hennepin Cty

cities build for the use of the automobile

on the banks of the Mississippi River, Minneapolis has a long history of industry and a strong sense of community,

CENTRAL

Northeast, Minneapolis a unique sense of place

BROADWAY

-Central and Broadway are high traffic roads servicing tens of thousands of people each day -variety of immigrant communities through time -Gateway between communities to the north and the greater Minneapolis -strong artist + brew community

BROADWAY ST NE mixed use commercial connector

The recent Vision Zero Crash study conducted by Minneapolis Public Works revealed that our roads are twice as dangerous as those in New York City; that of our dangerous roads, the most menacing were the four-lane roads divided only by paint; and that the “majority of severe crashes involving pedestrians happen on roughly 5 percent of the city’s streets” – “severe crashes” being those that cause death and life-altering injury. Broadway Street in Northeast Minneapolis is one of these streets. Concurrently, a recent community survey by area neighborhood groups found that the status quo is not working for residents, with 61% of pedestrians and 91% of cyclists feeling the street to be “unsafe”. Broadway St. NE already contains a narrow railroad bridge that doesn’t safely allow two cars to fit side-by-side, and functions as some kind of macabre car-and-cyclist-smashing machine -Streets MN

CENTRAL AVE mixed use commercial connector

The cultural district speaks to Northeast Minneapolis’ residential history. Some know it as Highway 65, a thoroughfare that starts in downtown Minneapolis and goes as far north as International Falls, Minnesota. However, the Central Avenue Cultural District specifically runs from 18th Street Northeast to 26th Street Northeast and has consisted of a traditionally working-class population of Polish, Lebanese, German, Slovak, Russian, and Ukrainian immigrants. These populations came to work in Northeast’s railways and warehouses since the 1930s. In the late 1990s, the rest of the Twin Cities visited the area for its restaurants and shops and revived Central Avenue’s importance. Today, Central Avenue is home to a plethora of all those heritages and businesses, along with an influx of Somali and Latino/Latinx immigrants. -minneapolis.org

UNDERSTANDING THE PAST

What does the community notice about their neighborhood? asked a variety of Northeast neighbors to map out Northeast without looking at a map. What I was looking for: -what is the extent of northeast? -what streets did they include? -what types of spaces? -any emotions/memories tied to location -anywhere that cannot be labeled by maps (secrets) Linn Dury Anna Pate

Anna’s Friend? B Lauer Mr. Pate

Michael Talerico

Shane Kosieradzki Kate Cornish

TAKEAWAYS Most included either Mississippi or 35W Shops and Restaurants are placemakers there is a clear presence of RR tracks that divide NE Grid system is evedent in most memory maps Kate Noel

(how to highlight magic in the ‘inbetween’)

Precedent for Site Navigation through Artist-Led Guided Walking Tour

INDUSTRY HUB

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NOON WHISTLE TOUR

by ArtShare

CONNECT TO THE RIVER 21

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NEVER THE SAME RIVER TWICE TOUR

by ArtShare

Current Day Site Process A survey of processes that are currently (and historically) visibly transforming the landscape. These weathering processes range fromenvironmental and human induced (sometimes a mix of both). Some are continuous, while others are periodic. cracking

weathering

abandonment

gentrification

rail yards

borders

lack of maintentance

corners

snow plow

microclimates

drainage

residential weathering

public gathering

public transit

community organizing

Site Materials Existing materials on the site range from extremely fluid (such as water) to extremely hard (such as concrete or stone).

turf grass

concrete

asphalt

bike rack

metal rail

street tree

unearthed brick

electrical poles

remnant factories

pooling water

lawn ornaments

parked cars

train car

streets

litter

layer: INFRASTRUCTURE

Historically, Northeast Minneapolis (known locally as Nordeast) was an industrial hub that attracted immigrant labor from Eastern Europe. In the 1980s, the area now known as the North Loop was a place that provided unregulated live/work space accommodations in mostly underutilized or vacant industrial buildings. Former, working class artists utilized these large unregulated spaces until razing took place and new developments came with stricter city regulations. Many artists flocked from the North Loop area to a fairly deserted Northeast industrial community, because their work often did not yield immediate fiscal gains and in order to support their work and family they needed large cheap spaces that could serve dual live/work functions, which their former dwellings provided. When artists arrived in Northeast they encountered a neighborhood rich in social capital. More than half of our community stakeholders described the community as a place filled with blue-collar workers that had a set of shared values, which enabled neighbors to trust each other and work together. Many stakeholders talked about a community full of churchgoers with a strong work ethic that went to work, went to church, and went to the bar. However, that working-class history of “knowing thy neighbor,” according to these community stakeholders, shifted drastically in the last decade, because long-term residents and artists are being priced out while witnessing a shift in residential demographics and a boom in the rise of commercial businesses. As the economic incentives for investment in Northeast became realized, all of our community stakeholders identified changes in housing and commercial leasing costs, residential demographics, and the commodification of the annual Art-A-Whirl event as the moment at which they realized Northeast had gentrified.

This rapid economic growth has caused historic residents and artists alike to report steep increases in rents, housing values and property taxes, leaving residents to question whether or not Northeast will continue to be an affordable place to call home -UMN CURA-

infrastructure

river

history

FINDING PLACE_layers

In the last six years, Northeast Minneapolis has become home to the city’s highest concentration of breweries in the state. Northeast, from an investment standpoint, now has an exchange value based on the cultural capital that the trendiness of a designated arts district brings and its close proximity to downtown. Anyone that is a “maker” with a good business model that can mass-produce can likely benefit. With the introduction of a new artist economy has come new residential demographics, high demand for housing, and the local and national tourist looking for a bit of culture and experience.

layer: RIVER

The story of Minneapolis begins with St. Anthony Falls, the only major waterfall on the Mississippi River. The falls has been a gathering place for many different people, for many different reasons, for thousands of years. Located in Dakota homeland, Owamniyomni (St. Anthony Falls) was a place of spiritual power and a gathering place for resources like the sugar maples on Nicollet Island and nearby springs. The Dakota name for the river, Haha Wakpa (Mississippi), means “river of the falls.” Owamniyomni is part of a larger landscape — Bdote, the confluence of the Mni Sota Wakpa (Minnesota) and Haha Wakpa (Mississippi) rivers — is a place of cultural importance to many Dakota people as a site of creation, as well as a historical gathering place. The falls were given the name St. Anthony Falls by Father Louis Hennepin, who came to the area in 1680. The Europeans and Americans who followed prized the falls as a place of beauty and a source of waterpower for industry. In 1805, Zebulon Pike made an agreement with several Dakota representatives to acquire land for a military fort at Bdote. The Fort Snelling military reservation also included the land at St. Anthony Falls. The first sawmill and gristmill were built by Fort Snelling soldiers in the 1820s. By the 1850s the falls were harnessed as a source of power for the commercial lumber and flour milling industries, and the riverfront settlement transformed into a city that led the world in flour production for nearly 50 years, beginning in 1880. Later, changes in transportation and industry led to a move away from the river, and as business departed, the area declined. Today, the Minneapolis riverfront has been revitalized. It’s a place where visitors enjoy sightseeing, walking and biking trails, dining, live music, and theater. Many historic buildings have been developed for new uses

infrastructure

river

history

FINDING PLACE_layers

-UMN CURA-

layer: HISTORY

13 smaller neighborhoods whose street addresses end in “NE”. Unofficially it also includes the neighborhoods of the University community which have “NE” addresses, and the entirety of the Old Saint Anthony business district, which sits on the dividing line of “NE” and “SE” addresses. In the wider community, this business district, which is the oldest settlement in the city, is often identified as the heart of Northeast, in part because it lies across the Mississippi River from Downtown Minneapolis. Northeast is sometimes referred to as “Nordeast”, reflecting the history of northern and eastern European immigrants and their language influence. The modern community includes commercial districts stretching along the major corridors of University Avenue, Central Avenue, East Hennepin Avenue, Broadway Street, and Stinson and New Brighton Boulevards towards the city limits. Blending a heritage of old architecture, classic housing, bustling commercial streets, and industrial work centers, along with new residential high-rises, suburban cul-de-sacs, big-box retail, and a popular art scene, Northeast offers diverse amenities as part bedroom neighborhood and job center for the city of Minneapolis. The prominent features of Northeast include ornate Eastern European influenced churches and massive grain silos and mills. Mostly built around the late 19th to early 20th century, these structures shadow the landscape of modest Victorians and four story apartments. The area was the City of St. Anthony before it was annexed into Minneapolis, and is thus sometimes confused with the city named Saint Anthony which abuts Northeast Minneapolis on the northeast, or Saint Anthony Park, a Saint Paul neighborhood that abuts it to the northeast. The land west of the Mississippi was opened for settlement in 1852, and when people started settling it, St. Anthony found it had a competitor across the river. St Anthony was incorporated in 1855, twelve years before neighboring Minneapolis. St Anthony and Minneapolis existed as separate cities until 1872 when they agreed to merge under the name of Minneapolis. The former St. Anthony became Northeast Minneapolis and a township north of the city incorporated the name St. Anthony.

The gateway to Northeast: the Hennepin Avenue Bridge and the landmark Grain Belt beer sign. The area also has a history of historic preservation. In the 1960s, a proposal to build a freeway through the area was fought. The proposed freeway, Interstate 335, would connect I-94 in north Minneapolis to I-35W north of the University of Minnesota. Land was bought and cleared with residents relocating before the project was finally defeated by local residents and activists. Ultimately new housing and industrial buildings were built on the cleared land.[3] Soon after, a historic preservation district was enacted on the site of the Pillsbury A Mill, stretching east to nearby Marcy Holmes. -UMN CURA-

infrastructure

river

history

FINDING PLACE_layers

In the 1970s, as the area approached nearly a hundred years of settlement earlier than the rest of the city, the Neighborhood Revitalization Program assisted residents and businesses to utilize grants and loans to complete construction, alteration or improvement projects and the city invested in new streets and urban landscaping. The next few decades carried massive condo development which echoed the rising architecture in downtown Minneapolis.

Significant Spots

Thorp Building Diamonds Cafe

Delmonicos

Art-A-Whirl California Building

The Margarete Barry house

Bottineau Park

The Broadway

ESNS

Davis Frost

Community Garden

Crown Iron Works

Northrup used King Building to store seed 28

Architecture Antiques

Upper Cut Boxing Gym

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used to be

used to be a scale

General Mills

Parking Lot _used to be victory garden

Grain Elevators used to store seed grain elevators now torn down

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Aaron Carlson

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Highlight Center

Uncle Franky’s

Nation Signs

Beltrami Park

Ideal Diner

Edgewater Park Sign

Sample Room

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Gluek Gazebo

Hollywood Theater 700 Central little sisters of the poor home for the aged Grain Belt Brewery Shoreham Yards

nationally registered historic building

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2,250 ft

Mapping the 3 Layers Using the precedents and research regarding significant spots in the area, I categoried them based on the three layers I have of Northeast Minneapolis. Those three categories, or layers, of Mississippi River, Infrastructure, and History. Looking at this layering, I started to notice groupings of the layers, as well as interesting moments where different layers meet up and intersect.

Landscape Layers

Landscape Layers River

Mississippi River

Infrastructure Infrastructure

Historical History

100ft

Noted Hotspots places to start conversation

I have noticed these groupings of the layers, as well as interesting moments where different layers meet up and intersect. This mapping highlights just a few of the endless spots that would be great for starting a conversation with the land. There is a HUB, or area with many intersections and adjecencies creating a unique environment where there could be a dialogue about a greater sense of place. I have also located four satellite sites that would be an opportunity to make a garden conversation network and encourage folks to go further and really understand more of notheast, rather than just one area. These satellites have a lot of potential for different programming as well as easily able to add satellites and expand upon them.

RIVER SATELLITE

BRIDGE SATELLITE

NEIGHBORHOOD SATELLITE

ers

River

ure

CONNECTIONS SATELLITE 100ft

THE HUB

EARTH EMOTION FLORIOGRAPHY

FLORIOGRAPHY IN THE LANDSCAPE There is a need to extend this meaningful gift and language to a wider audience, whether that to the earth, or to a more public group to recieve the messege. Using perennials for a long lasting messege and reminder, or annuals for a seasonal note, there is a lot of potential for adding a deeper meaning to plant selection beyond right plant, right place.

HOW TO READ THE LANDSCAPE representation, seasonality, and continuing the conversation are important as to how to read the landscape. Is it just a statement to make to the landscape, or is there continued care needed and attention to make sure the landscape and community are being heard.

layered context of site -history -infrastructure -environment -land use change

respond with acknowledgement + encouragement on how to understamd and move forward innovative - experiment with design process inspired by victorian floriography bringing it into the present day

Stirring up a modern emotion that connects both intuitive and ecological

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Aub rey ’s

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the designer, empathetic to the land

response 3

response 1 + 3

response explination Response 2 response 1 response 1 + 2

METHOD

CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION

This new method for planting design is a response to the history and ecology of the site and its immediate context. Through the lens of the designers emotional response and how we, as a community, should come together or move forward. It is able to just be enjoyed, or deciphered to gain another understanding of the plants and our relationship with them.

What does this floriography response look like over time? As time goes on, and emotions towards this site change, there is more to be added to the conversation! Therefore, future designers are encouraged to continue the practice of floriography in the landscape and add new messages for people passing by to be able to read the landscape and its history over time.

INITIAL PLANTING

OVER TIME

a start of a conversation

new plants have been added to the coversation to continue the story of place

NE Typologies + Emotions emotions from “EARTH EMOTIONS: new words for a new world” by Glenn A. Albrecht

historical cultural buildings

Infrastructure

CONTEXT emotion:

History

metropolitain center - connections

emotion: CONTEXT

SYMBIOMENT A recognition that all life exists within living systems at various sacleas. There is no “outside” for FLORIOGRAPHY life forms within the biosphere.

ENDEMOPHILA

EMOTION The particular love of the locally

EMOTION

and regionally distinctive of the people of place. agricultural landscape

FLORIOGRAPHY CONTEXT

industries

SUMBIOSIC Those cumulative types of active EMOTION and purposive relationships and attributes created by humans the enhance mutual interdependence and mutual benefit for all FLORIOGRAPHY living beings so as to conserve and maximize a state of unity-in-diversity.

CONTEXT MERMEROSITY An anticipatory state of being EMOTION worried about the possible passing of the familiar and its replacement by that of which does not sit comfortably in one’s sense of place.

FLORIOGRAPHY

railway

SOLASTALGIA

residential neighborhood The distress caused by the lack CONTEXT

of solace and the sense of desolationconnected to the present CONTEXT state one’s homeand territory. EMOTIONof It is the homesickness felt when you are still home. FLORIOGRAPHY EMOTION

streets/arteries

SUMBIOCENTRIC Taking into account the totality of life interests in the biosphere at all scales when makeing decisionis about human needs.

CONTEXT FLORIOGRAPHY

EMOTION TOPOPHOBIA Fear of entering a biophysical space. FLORIOGRAPHY

River MISSISSIPPI

emotion: the GHEDEIST CONTEXT The awareness of a spirit or force that holds all of life together; a feeling of profound symbiotic interconectedness in all life EMOTION between self and other beings (human and non-human) and their gathering together to live within shared Earth places and FLORIOGRAPHY places. It is a secular feeling of intense affinity and sense of mutual empathy for other beings.

Transitional post industry-bioremediation CONTEXT

EMOTION

FLORIOGRAPHY

wetlands-litorum? CONTEXT

EMOTION

FLORIOGRAPHY

NORTHEAST FLORIOGRAPHY SCHIZACHYRIUM Little Bluestem

Front: intuitive side what are the human experiential aspects of the plant?

There is a sense of magic associated with little bluestem. They are so dynamic and change to adapt to each of the seasons. The wind making the leaves dance throughout, sometimes shockingly verdant, sometimes celebrating with a seedhead, or even sending us off with a striking kiss of color.

winds of change give to some place that the world is has turmed its back on, and that it’s glory days have past. Little Blue helps remind folks that change can happen while rooted and honoring the past

SUN

3’

MOISTURE SOILS wind barrier nesting habitat

erosion control

Back: ecologocal side how does the plant interact with the environment it’s part of?

Aubrey’s deck

SEDUM Stonecrop While from a distance, the sedum is just one plant, and upon closer inspection this one plant is system of high functioning parts that work together to make a whole. there are many individual stems and blooms, and together they create a plant that is reliable and a constant in any garden

consistency give to some place that feels isolated in a rapidly changing world- wants to hold onto what once was

ACER RUBRUM Red Maple

The red maple is a friend who you’ve seemed to know your whole life, standing on the street corner. Yet, somehow, they always seems to amaze you each autumn with a firery red show of folliage. Realizing that maybe you didnt know the winter, spring, or summer maple as well as you thought you did and they are way more independant than you once thought.

become reaquainted with those around you- tune into them and notice their needs give to some place that has been overlooked.

HELLEBORE

Lenten Rose

The Hellebore is a memorium for what once was. The blossoms, while beautiful, are bowing towards the earth and what has now passed.

rememberance dont forget me give to some place that needs to slow down and appreciate where they have been (for fear of losing oneself)

GINKGO

Maidenhair Tree Its meaning comes as no surprise as the age old Ginkgo’s hand-like leaf morphology shows gratitude for the world around us. Every fall the arm-like appendages offer the world a dazzling show of yellow as a festival for the season that once was, in order to welcome the colder season.

appreciation + gratitude give to some place that is always striving for more and never content, a place that has high turnaround this place is needing validation and a sign that it can be content

JUNIPEROUS Juniper

The tough needles of the juniper seem offputting to the weary traveler, you’ll find that the Juniper is really quite a softy. With it’s enchanting aromas and plump berries the juniper is a sholder you can cry on, and a friend to pick you back up again.

empathy, strength in vulnerability give to some place that needs reassurance, to acknowledge what they have been through, and to use every aspect of the place as a strength for community building

HAKONECHLOA

Japanese Forest Grass The neon folliage of the Japanese Forest grass provides a whimsiical pillow for the landscape. Not only does it support the adventures of the landscape, but it is a home to the facinating understory living underneath it’s shade. understanding this species at a variety of scale iss important for an earthly balance.

notice the small, hopeful imagination of another world give to some place that needs to see the possibilities + encouragement

FORSYTHIA Golden Bell

After a dark, cold winter, Forsythia are the bells to ring in the new spring season. The bright yellow blooms on the otherwise seemingly barren twigs give us all hope and joy after going through the toughest season

hope, joy, happiness in times of change and instability give to some place that has been through difficult times (seasons, hardship, etc.) and is in need of a pick-me-up. reflect on the highs in the midst of low

BETULA NIGRA

PURSLANE

River Birch

Little Hogweed

River Birch have a cacophany of textures that root itself in harsh and temporal environments. They tolerate, adapt, and empathize to their environment, and tune into the interbeing of the earth

Looking down at a side walk, this common weed is often overlooked.Just a succulent growing through the cracks. In reality, much of the world, Purslane is a delicatcy and can be very cooked and prepared in numerous ways highlighting its salty sour taste.

tune into the reciprocity between youand the gifts of the earth, interbeing give to some place that needs to disconnect from the hustle and bustle of city life, that is micromanaged and hyper focused on efficiency

see the world in unsuspecting ways, unity in contradiction give to someplace that needs a change of perspective,or a fresh start.

SCHIZACHYRIUM Little Bluestem

SUN

3’

MOISTURE SOILS wind barrier nesting habitat

erosion control

consistency give to some place that feels isolated in a rapidly changing world- wants to hold onto what once was

SUN

pest resistant

MOISTURE 2’

SOILS

drought tolerant

HELLEBORE

Lenten Rose

The Hellebore is a memorium for what once was. The blossoms, while beautiful, are bowing towards the earth and what has now passed.

rememberance dont forget me give to some place that needs to slow down and appreciate where they have been (for fear of losing oneself)

SUN MOISTURE SOILS

early spring pollen source

2’ protect soil surface

GINKGO

appreciation + gratitude give to some place that is always striving for more and never content, a place that has high turnaround this place is needing validation and a sign that it can be content

SUN 50-80’

MOISTURE medicinal benefits

SOILS

pest resistant

ACER RUBRUM Red Maple

become reaquainted with those around you- tune into them and notice their needs give to some place that has been overlooked.

SUN MOISTURE SOILS

60’-90’

JUNIPEROUS Juniper

empathy, strength in vulnerability give to some place that needs reassurance, to acknowledge what they have been through, and to use every aspect of the place as a strength for community building

SUN

2’-5’

MOISTURE SOILS

increase moisture holding capacity

erosion control + build topsoil

BETULA NIGRA River Birch

River Birch have a cacophany of textures that root itself in harsh and temporal environments. They tolerate, adapt, and empathize to their environment, and tune into the interbeing of the earth

40’-70’

SUN MOISTURE SOILS

waterfowl habitat

erosion control

HAKONECHLOA

notice the small, hopeful imagination of another world give to some place that needs to see the possibilities + encouragement

SUN MOISTURE SOILS 1.5’

wind barrier

shelter/habitat

FORSYTHIA Golden Bell

SUN

5’-8’

MOISTURE SOILS early spring pollen source

PURSLANE

Little Hogweed

see the world in unsuspecting ways, unity in contradiction give to someplace that needs a change of perspective,or a fresh start.

Little Hogweed

SUN MOISTURE

bioaccumulation

SOILS carpet growth adaptable

16”

RESPONDING TO EMOTION THROUGH PLANTS

Different Ways to present the planting 1. in isolation 2. massing 3. paired with another 4. same side as location 5. across/facing the location

Representation 1. planting 2. representation/ drawing/poster/sticker/

“Isn’t that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?” -Maira Kalman, My Favorite Things

SELECTED GARDENS

RIVER SATELLITE

BRIDGE SATELLITE

NEIGHBORHOOD SATELLITE

ayers

ppi River

ucture

THE HUB 100ft

CONNECTIONS SATELLITE

Noted Hotspots places to start conversation

The HUB and satellite gardens will start to ground floriography as a landscape design practice. In this practice, I have found that finding these overlooked spaces is quite easy in this neighborhood, and in this context. They are the alleys, the nooks, the backyards. Places that one can see from a distance while walking on the street. Within the HUB and Satellite Gardens I have located a few of these overlooked and magical spaces with stories to tell in order to better understand sense and story of place. These spaces allow for a place to start to engage with the landscape and gain another perspective of the site and how to move forward with motivation framed in hope.

THE HUB existing

updated

visualized

GATEWAY on CENRTAL

QUINCY ST NE

GENERAL MILLS CAVERN

THE HUB_Gateway on Central existing

updated

visualized

site analysis sun/shade urban soils 8ft drop in elevation

streets/arteries

industries

CONTEXT railway

CONTEXT

EMOTION

CONTEXT

EMOTION EMOTION

FLORIOGRAPHY

MERMEROSITY

TOPOPHOBIA

SOLASTALGIA

being worried about the passing of the familiar and its replacement by that of which does not sit comfortably with one’s sense of place

fear of entering a biophysical space

homesickness felt when you are still home

THE HUB_Gateway on Central existing

updated

visualized

ACER RUBRUM

Red Maple

Litt

FORSYTH

Golden

Bell

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hope, jo y of chan , happiness in ti ge and instabil mes give to ity some pl ac di

become reaquainted with those around you- tune into them and notice their needs

fficult tim e that ha s been of a pick es (seasons through , ha -me-up midst of . reflect rdship, etc.) an on the low highs in d is in need the

give to some place that has been overlooked.

trust the process

ACHYRIUM SCleHIZ Bluestem

joy and hope

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winds of ch

You are entering a new phase. You will learn and grow through this experience d its

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dynamic change for growth

As you enter this space, there is so much happening in everywhich direction that you may need to find a moment of pause to see forward- see backward. As you sit there, you realize that there will always be change surrounding us-through space and time- we can only hope it is for the better, while thinking you ponder in what changes you have more agency in which direction they head. You notice the forsythia and immediately smile at its bright yellow blooms. A core value of the space and community is that joy and hope should be at the center of all thats done from day to day to years down the road. trust is the framework and teamwork of the community- much like the red maple always seems to surprise you in the fall, appreciate all it has to offer and opportunities all year round landforms for higher and greater view, but also hidden and framed view of train system- always strive to reach new highs and new views and perspectives, but also see the limitations and acknowledge them.

CENTRAL AVE landforms

retaining wall and seating

joy and hope

trust the process

Acer Rebrum

14th St Forsythia Schizachyrium

40ft

THE HUB_Gateway on Central existing

updated

visualized

Little Bluestem -perspective of the grass changes overtime and based on location -bordering the site Forsythia at the center, as a joyful backdrop Red Maple -guides along central and into Northeast neighborhoods

Mississippi River

THE HUB_Quincy St NE Infrastructure

streets/arteries

existing

updated

visualized Historical

CONTEXT

EMOTION TOPOPHOBIA Fear of entering a biophysical space

FLORIOGRAPHY

100ft

historical cultural buildings CONTEXT

EMOTION

ENDEMOPHILA the particular love of the lacally and regionally destinctive people of place

agricultural landscape

FLORIOGRAPHY CONTEXT

EMOTION

SUMBIOSIC cumulative types of active and purposive relationships and attributes created by humans that enhance mutual interdependance

FLORIOGRAPHY

site analysis sun/shade urban soils relatively flat in elevation

THE HUB_Quincy St NE existing

updated

visualized

think outside the box

Ginkgo Sedum

There is a linear story happening here on Quincy St NE. Entering from Broadway, there is a path straight forward with a destination of relaxation and respite away from the dangerous traffic. Guiding you in is the welcoming party of Sedum and Ginkgo. Together, they acknoledge all that the community does to imagine a better world. Why not take a moment to reflect on all that this land has provided through this path. There are so many people over such a long period of time, that we must appreciate that this place is so resilient and has a story to tell.

change perspective, unexpected

Juniperous Hakonechloa Purslane

vulnerable strength

As you walk north on Quincy, take note of the inticing aromas of the Junipers and their quiet strength in vulnerability. Juniper is stable and will guide you along with Japanese Forest Grass, which will inspire a new way of seeing the space. Let us not forget the small, but mighty Purslane, which offers a surprising green and yellow carpet to the end of the path and to a secluded plaza where you find unexpexted hospitality in a heavily industrial area.

Ginkgo Sedum

gratitude

Juniperous

strength with many

Hakonechloa

SEDUM

GINKGO

Stonecrop

While from a distance, the sedum is just one plant, and upon closer inspection this one plant is system of high functioning parts that work together to make a whole. there are many individual stems and blooms, and together they create a plant that is reliable and a constant in any garden

consistency

Ask for help from others, stength of the community appreciation + gratitude network

give to some place that feels isolated in a rapidly changing world- wants to hold onto what once was

give to some place that is always striving for more and never content, a place that has high turnaround this place is needing validation and a sign that it can be content

strength with many

HAKONECHLOA

JUNIPEROUS

Japanese Forest Grass

Juniper

empathy, strength in vulnerability give to some place that needs reassurance, to acknowledge what they have been through, and to use every aspect of the place as a strength for community building

vulnerable strength

gratitude

think outside the box

The neon folliage of the Japanese Forest grass provides a whimsiical pillow for the landscape. Not only does it support the adventures of the landscape, but it is a home to the facinating understory living underneath it’s shade. understanding this species at a variety of scale iss important for an earthly balance.

notice the small, hopeful imagination of another world give to some place that needs to see the possibilities + encouragement

change perspective unexpected

PURSLANE

Little Hogweed

see the world in unsuspecting ways, unity in contradiction

you’ll find the answer where you least expected it to

give to someplace that needs a change of perspective,or a fresh start.

THE HUB_Quincy St NE existing

updated

visualized

-safer more enjoyable walking experience -uncover the past (through the beautiful brick pavers that have been covered by asphalt) -work in tandem with community businesses -Juniper as lighthousing down the path -massings of Japanese Forest Grass to emphasize the value of trying something new, or changing perspectives

THE HUB_General Mills existing

updated

visualized

industries wetlands-litorum?

railway

CONTEXT

EMOTION

EMOTION EMOTION

FLORIOGRAPHY

MERMEROSITY being worried about the passing of the familiar and its replacement by that of which does not sit comfortably with one’s sense of place

SOLASTALGIA

FLORIOGRAPHY

homesickness felt when you are still home

TOPOPINIA a deep longing to enter a place you have never been to

site analysis sun/shade urban soils relatively flat in elevation

THE HUB_General Mills existing

updated

visualized

BETULA NIGRA River Birch

HELLEBORE

River Birch have a cacophany of textures that root itself in harsh and temporal environments. They tolerate, adapt, and empathize to their environment, and tune into the interbeing of the earth

Lenten Rose

The Hellebore is a memorium for what once was. The blossoms, while beautiful, are bowing towards the earth and what has now passed.

tune into the reciprocity between youand the gifts of the earth, interbeing

rememberance dont forget me

give to some place that needs to disconnect from the hustle and bustle of city life, that is micromanaged and hyper focused on efficiency

interconnectedness

give to some place that needs to slow down and appreciate where they have been (for fear of losing oneself)

do not forget

HAKONECHLOA

notice the small, hopeful imagination of another world

give to some place that needs to see the possibilities + encouragement

A memorium for what this place once was and a placemarker for its role in our lives today

think outside the box

This, currently vacant, Cheerio’s factory is an echo of an era- the bright blue beacon of a sign reminding those passing by of the importance of factory work on the person of place- therefore it is important to remember that work ethic at a site of one of the factories. As you cross Central Ave onto 12th Ave, there is a sense of calm, in almost an eerie way, in that this is an in memorium of the noon whistle. The river birch that guide you on your journey, represent that not only people, and industrial systems are interwoven, but also our connection to other beings and place in space and time in history- everything has led up to this moment and there will be new, and outside the box, ways of interacting with the world in the future, hence the Japanese Forest Grass that weaves through this garden. There must be an imaginative and collaborative way for the community of all backgrounds to come together and create a better future.

be inspired by your neighbors

find a new way to use this space for years to come

where have you been and where are you going?

Hellebore Hakonechloa Betula Nigra

THE HUB_General Mills existing

updated

visualized

Using River Birch to guide people slightly off the beaten path to uncover the history of site and show pedestrians the awe of what once was and what could be In the back patio area, using ecological and industrial systems to acknowledge our part in the system. Our design decisions have impact, and the human role in altering natural systems for better or worse, adding habitat for animals, such as trees and shrubs, highlights our interconnectedness. Massings of Hellebore offer a solemn rememberance of this space, but also a beauty in imagining a future for this timeless infrastructure

SATELLITE GARDENS

RIVER SATELLITE

100ft

CONNECTIONS SATELLITE

BRIDGE SATELLITE

NEIGHBORHOOD SATELLITE

Connecting with site NE Floriography Stations

An Informational Pamplet NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS

FLORIOGRAPHY Aubrey Olson, MLA candidate 2022

Floriography is the language of flowers. The use of it was very popular during the victorian era, when it wasn’t socially acceptable to say what was honestly on your mind, so people turned to flowers to communicate with one another.

Use the cards to: Interpret the conversation Continue the conversation Please continue the experience and conversation by adding more plants to the deck!

So for example, a friend has a big test or project that they are nervous about, you might send them a tussie-mussie (bouquet) containing many apple blossoms, for they convey messages of good luck to a loved one.

How to have a conversation with the landscape. This brief guide will help you interact and learn about the spaces you walk by through the medium of floriography.

to explain the process for design and understand the attempted conversation between the site and the community theough the lens of the designer. Also used as an inspiration for others to understand landsacapes and plants around

How does the conversation happen with the landscape? An acknowledgement to time and space, for people who experience this place short or long term What are the emotions that these places stir up through time? Using the cards provided in the box, can you understand the messages of this space and imagine the story of this place? Try crafting your own message to the landscape and community using floriography!

You are entering a new phase. You will learn and grow through this experience Forsythia joy and hope

A Deck of Cards Having the deck of cards on site has twofold justification. 1. So that users could have another perspective on the site and a deeper/another understanding of the inuitive and ecological importance of the plants and how they would engage in converstation with the context of the site 2. use as inspiration to either add to the deck, or to create other tussie-mussies and continue the converstation on site and elsewhere in the neighborhood and beyond.

What plants would you use in your pallet, and what would their meanings be?

For example:

Little Bluestem dynamic change and growth

Red Maple trust the process

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” -Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Words cannot express my gratitude to Committee members: Rebecca Krinke John Koepke Malini Srivastava Karen Lutsky

Mentors: Jessica Rossi-Mastracci Olivia Lyster

My Dearest Family + Friends

APPENDIX

LAYERED SITE STREETS

RAILROAD TRACKS

AUBREY WALKS

MOVEMENT DIAGRAM

FINDINGS FROM LAYERING moments of transition (clear ‘zones’ or areas) How to unify these areas?

R.R. cut through entirety and drive the historical buildings What is the best way to cross rail road tracks? train yards offer a unique viewing experience, feel part of the movement/ yet also desolate?

HOW DID WE GET HERE? GENTRIFICATION What can we understand from understanding one building at 945 Broadway over time? Land ‘o Nod Discount Paper Supply Co. The Broadway Building

1940s Olson Family Land ‘o Nod

1970s Hartwell Family Land ‘o Nod

1985 Discount Paper Supply Co

2012-present First + First the Broadway Building

CAMDEN NEIGHBORHOODS NORTHEAST NEIGHBORHOODS

NEAR NORTH NEIGHBORHOODS

CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOODS CALHOUN-ISLES NEIGHBORHOODS

UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOODS

PHILLIPS

POWDERHORN NEIGHBORHOODS

SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS

2000 indicators

LONGFELLOW NEIGHBORHOODS

2015 indicators: Minneapolis 2015 indicators: Sheridan Neighborhood

NOKOMIS NEIGHBORHOODS

2015 indicators: Logan Park Neighborhood 2015 indicators: St. Anthony West Neighborhood 2015 indicators: St. Anthony East Neighborhood median home value

median rent

median income

residents with bachelors degree

renters

residents in poverty

What are the Criterea for Gentrification? Dramatically rising house prices greater renting population

3 THEMES

MAGIC IN THE LIMINAL

OVERVIEW

-magic in the liminal (thresholds) -layer history (slow down) -re-framing emotion (how do moments of pause and reflection)

Key Features thresholds transitions slope change

Framing Emotion

LAYER HISTORY

view of downtown

view of industrial northeast

11 : 11

Key Features

HISTORICAL siness lo cal bu

11 : 11 57

Slow Down indirect path texture

structured view

local business

guided view

EXISTING

ephemeral

local business

Key Features hide + reveal borders highlight/underline the unexpected/ overlooked

TITLE

paragraph/ subtext

TAKEAWAYS Each day we see or learn something new, or in some cases for example if I was to go past an area everyday, I may dismiss the detail of that area until I observe one day and notice something new which I have not previously noticed before. This could be an example of recording something even in memory. These thought processes could help designers further their thought processes or give inspirations of a sort.

REDEFINING THE FLANEUR the dérive as a socialized rather than individual practice. The relationship of the dérive to relational aesthetic practices as a means to renew a connection with a critique of the spectacle, with the distributive trajectories of labour and capital, and with the creation of ‘situations’ in a society that has, for some time, accommodated them. drifting should be undertaken as a group – ‘the most fruitful numerical arrangement consists of two or three who have reached the same awakening of consciousness’ but drifting,looks to establish itself as a form of objective knowledge, a new type of urban science

Imagine the investment into Northeast Walkways

RIVER

HISTORY

INDUSTRY

A LAYERED SITE