Dansk ukrudt og kunstig intelligens, "Danish Weeds and Artificial Intelligence"

Every morning, architect Frederick Rickmann walks through Bygholm Park and onward toward the center of Horsens. Along the way, thoughts grow—just like the weeds. This daily walk has become the book “Danish Weeds and Artificial Intelligence,” a poetic and thought‑provoking collection of reflections on nature, technology, and the human gaze on living systems.

The book moves in the space between the green and the digital: the wild plants along park paths and Rickmann’s experiments with artificial intelligence and generative architecture. The result is a contemporary counterpart to Flora Danica—an attempt to chart a new kind of nature. One that emerges when algorithms and weeds are allowed to grow together. To value one, we must understand the other.

“Danish Weeds and Artificial Intelligence” is a tribute to the beauty of the overlooked, the unordered, and the interconnected—sprouting in the borderland between humans, machines, and dandelions. The author, Frederick Rickmann, is perhaps Horsens’ most internationally active architect, with projects in China and Taiwan.