Landscape ArchitectureMiranda Mote

Mote’s project on botanography and botanical gardens will be a historical, artistic, and pedagogical endeavor. With research conducted at the Orto Botanico di Firenze, Padova and Pisa, Mote will document aspects of the culture of nature printing as foundational sources for nature printing as a western art and science. To hone Mote’s own techniques of creative botanical print work, examples of Italian nature prints and their printing methods will be examined and those methods reconstructed. In addition, Mote will continue to develop curricula for elementary and secondary STEAM (arts focused STEM pedagogy) using a variety of historical methods based on a deeper analysis and interpretation of nature printing as an art and science. The project is relevant to Mote’s design and history teaching in university programs of architecture and landscape architecture as well as efforts to connect youth with the palliative and cultural aspects of trees and gardens in urban communities.