“Close to a million begonia flowers were used to create the 300 square metres carpet this week. The pattern is based on a medieval carpet design”
It looks like the flowers (begonias) were dropped by hand onto the cobblestones and not planted and grown this way or anything - but it’s still really cool.
From this side of the ocean, China is seen as a powerful global superpower, with international successes seemingly based on a culture of standardization efficiency and a race to the bottom to produce the cheapest goods possible. But culturally? China isn’t seen by the west as a country that has historically valued creative energy and a culture of innovation. Before reading this, thinking off of my head, the only creative example I could think of was Shanghai’s 798 district, but unsurprisingly, in today’s world, innovation is more important now than ever before - and I learned a lot about how these dynamics are changing through this interview.