Session 5 — A place for plant data

Day 1 · 60 minutes

At a glance

Reading: Loukissas, Chapter 2, A Place for Plant Data, pp. 27–54
Output: Map of data-place relations

Close reading

Chapter 2, A Place for Plant Data (Loukissas 2019, 27–54). Session 6 reads the same chapter from a different angle.

We read this text together in the session.

Reading summary

Loukissas uses the Arnold Arboretum to show that data have complex attachments to place. Plant records are tied to living specimens, tags, collecting histories, institutional practices, maps, catalogues, and databases. Data can be about, in, and from a place. These relations shape how the records can be interpreted.

In class

Students trace the relations between plant, place, label, record, database, and visualization.

Output

A map of data-place relations.

Session 6 — From world to table continues with the same chapter.

Close reading

Reading summary

In class

Output

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