To those of us who spend the weekend with our hands sunk into moist earth, planting new cuttings or pulling out weeds, it may sound absurd to reference an algorithm that designs gardens.
But what if we were to create our garden following a planting scheme that benefits a diversity of pollinators instead of ourselves? Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s artwork, Pollinator Pathmaker, is about devising gardens that address biodiversity principles and use technology to prioritize the needs and tastes of pollinators over our own.