Botany for Plant Futures

About the workshop

This is an immersive participatory co-learning research workshop led by the South London Botanical Institute in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London’s project Rewilding Imagination for Sustainable Futures.

In this workshop we will explore weeds and elements of nature recording as a practical way to imagine plants as co-participants. We’ll start with a tour, do some exercises to identify and record plants and take part in some creative practices to imagine plants as co-conspirators in a livable future.

You are invited to reflect on what a plant-centred future might need from us and how it might impact your individual, community, organisational and institutional practices.

This workshop is led by SLBI’s Director, Elyssa Livergant, and Maggie Kanska, SLBI’S Learning and Communities Lead in collaboration with project leads for QMUL’S Rewilding Imagination for Sustainable Futures

About the South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)

The SLBI is a place for everyone to learn about plants and has an extensive botanical library, herbarium (dried plant collection), lecture room, as well as a beautiful botanical garden.

About Rewilding Imagination for Sustainable Futures

Rewilding Imagination for Sustainable Futures starts from a simple yet radical premise: institutions can undergo profound transformation when rivers, soils, and non-human species are imagined not merely as objects of protection, but as co-participants in climate action.

Funded through a Queen Mary University of London HSS Strategic Research Initiative grant, the project builds upon the ongoing work of the Imagination Research Network and the Forum on Decentering the Human.

The project is led by: Dr Shane Boyle (School of the Arts, QMUL), Dr Alessandro Merendino (School of Business and Management, QMUL), Dr Alexis Javier Alvarez Nakagawa (School of Law, QMUL) and Professor Gemma Harvey (School of Society and Environment)

Accessiblity

Our building entrance is not wheelchair accessible but does have a an entrance with a single step. The workshop takes place on the ground floor and there are not stairs once inside. We have a hearing loop and if you need this to support access please let us know. If you have any other access needs please get in touch at [email protected]