The project examines the greenhouse urbanization and photosynthetic colonization to describe the process that human displace, domesticate, and reproduce nature and territories in Anthropocene and Capitalocene.

The project reviews “invisible” extractivism in greenhouse urbanization under ecological masquerade. In a perspective of critical pragmatism rather than critical regionalism, the research explores the collaborative mechanism of global logistics, infrastructure, migration, and technology in ecological production. An online archive of photographs, cartographies, articles, and interviews aims to collect the images and stories of climate control, environmental transformation, and labor appropriation during the photosynthetic colonization.

The greenhouse has been rarely studied as an architectural typology, and greenhouse urbanization has been less mentioned as a form of urbanism. Yet this investigation of these “invisible landscapes” would provide us new perspectives of human interaction, intervention, and invasion into nature, and they also reflect the romanticized ecological conspiracy in political, economic, and anthropological realms.