# Weeds: A Germinating Theory

- **Brand:** MACK
- **Price:** $9.99
- **Catalog:** mackbooks
- **Retailer:** mackbooks
- **Product URL:** https://go.cosimo.shop/r/gAAAAABqzzub98ZLCxdXgIStqKMgnVzDRbp6_-LZ8BhXQfup1IQriU5Qq3XMHvnZoYt_TMhSno6VrxFFJnCcp2nueg-dKhqNUD03tGiXWWnPRGGZJPDAg73exzDP-XVcyZA-qFTKdrhKPxUVDK-YhuOgPKe-rggXAYoJudOF2HllfCOcHDQpyQvF2PJj3vdDpF0J8LrBUEmAqJHmMSSLPxPLzKluJljg1BvUvphdZ2t3Lcx3sK7Nqvra0uiaDvvNzTBPemRUlDKZUlolbULUhlkbdsy0W06yNDu7oHuHNqo6uqq-LnPcbsPf8ZuEu2T04ucrXWM61T4jx5jH7DGqOWT7y0UBsH8F0s9yA6GkEDQXR1DcOZtwTfU3Nek9lltN3xAL0Vj9xjpOCGCnuvfsZC265R19dxrjCIK5KUM3KfXStftHEuwffthrf2EjyaH3sKCFVhD2SKIPTSne0t_jZqT0yCsprZJJpg==
- **Availability:** In stock

## Summary

A silkscreen printed hardcover art book titled 'Weeds: A Germinating Theory' by Kwan Queenie Li, featuring a minimalist white cover with a mustard-yellow graphic of plant silhouettes.

## Description

Ebook available via this listing, on Apple Books and Kindle Store. For over a decade, artist and theorist Kwan Queenie Li has been photographing weeds across the world. From Jerusalem to Shanghai, Varanasi to Athens, Cairo to Mexico City, she has trained her attention on these unintended but ubiquitous inhabitants of the contemporary urban sphere, finding them dwelling in corners and cracks, in spaces suspended between uses, in ruins and on construction sites.  This essay in image and text proposes a new view of cities that learns from the weed’s point of view, dissolving familiar categories and temporalities to see cities as evolving and often undefined spaces, replete with opportunity. Weeds organically defy phenomena that are taken for granted as immovable: walls, borders, history, and prescribed identities. They are registers of the real lives of cities – of disuse and neglect, but also freedom and porousness. Out-of-place by definition, they offer a new perspective on the idea of ‘place’ itself, and the ways it shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants.    Sightlines is a series of essays looking at architecture from distinct points of view, each taking the perspective of a particular entity, history, discipline, or form of writing. View the series here.

## Appearance

- **Fit:** Hardcover

## Variants

- **In stock:** 2 of 2

| SKU | Availability |
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| 9781917651257 | In stock |
| 9781917651258E | In stock |

## Categories

- **Categories:** Architecture Books

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 978-1-917651-25-7
- **tags:** Kwan Queenie Li, transfer
- **pages:** 160 pages
- **author:** Kwan Queenie Li
- **format:** Silkscreen printed hardcover
- **vendor:** MACK
- **binding:** Silkscreen printed hardcover
- **publisher:** MACK
- **dimensions:** 12.5 x 18cm
- **page count:** 160 pages
- **product type:** Architecture Books
- **listed prices:** €22 £19 US$28 AU$45
- **shopify handle:** weeds-a-germinating-theory-kwan-queenie-li
- **publication date:** October 2025
- **dimensions and pages:** 12.5 x 18cm, 160 pages

## Enrichment

- **Type:** book
- **Type Synonyms:** hardcover book, art book
- **Tags:** silkscreen printed, hardcover, illustrated
- **Styles:** minimalist
- **Category Path:** Media > Books > E-Books
- **Genre:** Arts
- **Language version:** ENG- English
- **Target audience:** Adults
- **Canonical Brand:** MACK

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