By the Numbers: Rethinking the AgriCultural Image

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1 Paul Nash, ‘Unseen Landscapes’, Country Life (May 1938).

2 Sol LeWitt, ‘Paragraphs on Conceptual Art’, Artforum 5/10 (1967), 79–84.

3 Charles Gaines, ‘Numbers and Trees: Palm Canyon, Palm Trees Series 3’, viphauserwirth.com/ online-exhibitions/charlesgaines-numbers-and-trees, accessed 8 April 2021.

4 William L. Bird, Paint by Number: The How-to Craze That Swept the Nation (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001).

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Forbes Lipschitz

Forbes Lipschitz iis an associate professor of Landscape Architecture at the Knowlton School at the Ohio State University. As a faculty affiliate for the Initiative in Food and AgriCultural Transformation, her current research investigates the potential of design to reframe and reshape conventional working landscapes. Through public installations and participatory workshops, she explores ways for design to help communities better understand and engage with agricultural systems. Her research has been published nationally and internationally and her creative work has been featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine, Metropolis Magazine and Smithsonian Magazine. She has been awarded funding from the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research, the Graham Foundation for Fine Arts, and the Van Alen Institute. Her professional experience in landscape architecture has included a range of public, private and infrastructural work, including a multi-year installation at Les Jardins de Metis.