Rosetta S. Elkin

My work aims to elevate the role of plants in human life. I am a designer and an author, I teach landscape studies and environmental history. In my design practice, I experiment with the ways in which we compose our worlds, and collaborate with like-minded thinkers through Practice Landscape. We share a love of garden-making, public exhibitions, ecological and horticultural research and spending time promoting plants as lively companions. I think of my work as an attempt to achieve a more thoughtful and accountable design agenda. Please also check out Practice Grant; our 501c3 Foundation that supports community attempts to expand land-based practices. I also work as a Research Associate at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum and feel honored by the recognition my work has received from the Graham Foundation, Harvard Climate Solutions Award, the Garden Club of America Rome Prize and invitations to show my work at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Les Jardins de Metis, Chelsea Festival, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--- among others. I write to share my passion for how environmental issues linked to climate change are also changing the way we approach human worlds.