Workshops

A series of workshops related to each other have been developed to inspire further research practice.

These workshops attempt to encourage participants to re-see and re-bound with plants and re-imagine human-plants relationships.

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workshop 001 - A moment with plants

workshop 002 - Drawing with plants

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001 A moment with plants

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This workshop is the first approach to engage the public to be with plants. I have posted an open call on social media to use the term '#BEING WITH PLANTS' to encourage people to have a five-minute communication with accessible plants nearby and then share their experience through video, audio,text, etc. This online workshop was meat to function as a trigger point for the participants to gain embodied kinship experiences.

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Most of the outcome materials were photos of flowers and fruits, and others were focusing on vivid color or difference between long time scale. I start to question whether plants were generally considered nonthreatening, silent, and static. Thereupon human brain only picked profitable scenarios like bloom and fruit as visual memory. 

If this is a encounter to plant blindness?

002 Drawing with plants

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The photo materials collected from the first workshop shows that the participants' observation dwelled on a surface level and captured moments that seemed equipped with high instrumental value for human. 

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Investigating nature's inherent value and egoistic value is a continuing concern within the research of expansive relations between all life forms.[1] This workshop's main idea is to enlight the intrinsic value of plants.

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Re-see the familiar everyday plants by revealing the plant's hidden story via drawing and group discussion.

[1] Robert N. Rapoport, ‘Environmental Values and the Search for a Global Ethic’, Journal of Environmental Psychology 13, no. 2 (1 June 1993): 173–82, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-4944(05)80149-5.

The MIRO broard is only open for view.

If you are interested in participates please contact me yuxichan97@gmail.com 

I'll send you another link :)