This book revisits and reviews Tehran Monoxide, an ongoing artistic social, and collective project initiated in 2010 by Tehran-based artist and curator Negar Farajiani. The project has enjoyed an expansive scope: from setting up an art exhibition at a school to engaging with people in a downtown pharmacy; from learning about the effects of house plants on air pollution to peddling plants on the street and making up a tree- garden of exhaust pipes in a treeless garden; and from teaching schoolchildren to being taught by them, the book chronicles ten years that began with a simple question on air pollution in Tehran, to accommodating green corners in classrooms and much tighter spots.

A Project by Negar Farajiani
Editor: Ashkan Zahraei
Publisher: Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, University of California, Irvine

English Translator: Ashkan Zahraei
Additional Articles: Deanna Kashani, Sarah Maske, Behzad Khosravi Noori, Hoofar Haghighi Book Designer: Amir Moghtada at Rā Studio

Project Photographers: Samaneh Gholamnejad, Kamyar Minoukadeh, Negar Farajiani, Jalal Sepehr, Mahmoudreza Nourbakhsh, Masih Mostajeran.Plant Ecologists: Shahrouz Hakimi, Parnian Mahmoudzadeh Tussi