This week's issue contentiously deliberates on the connotations of the unwanted, wild growths that tend to choke the healthy: weeds. We see a correlation between how these PR-less, unbiased plants are perceived, with the impartial, ubiquitous nature of 'chaos' or 'noise' and what we do with them: eliminate them, trim to tame them or derive meaning from them.

Allegorically, they choke what we value. But is the value derived from our conditioning? What is worthier, a wild meadow or a manicured garden, or both or none? And by that logic, isn't gentrification also a form of weeding? Shouldn't spring cleaning be considered the same? Inversely, does weeding cut through the chaos to arrive at meaning, using the noise productively? Or is it uprooting, therefore irrationally violent?

With this in mind, we navigate the weeds at the 8th Yokohama Triennale, an ode to change and survival. Yet, it seems unclear whether its perceived chaos is intentional, in its inability to weave coherence among the 93 exhibiting artists. We also speak to Ondřej Chybík, co-founder of CHYBIK+KRISTOF, high on their recent 'London Landing' and wanting to leverage the city's 'multiculturalism' to create sans the conservatism of traditional building. Meanwhile, artist Pan Daijing uses noise as a compositional principle, finding in it a sense of unbiased freedom intrinsic to creating.

For all the right, wrong, and other perceptions, do we keep weeding off the creative landscape, or let it breathe?