Love the idea of a rebel flower crown! Though having said that, my hastily assembled one last Sunday, which kept on falling down over my eye during a WI Zoom meeting would have fitted the concept quite well ?
Our idyllic imaginary of the forest is colonised by images typical of central and northern Europe, such as the great deciduous forests through which it is easy to walk. In the Mediterranean, on the other hand, shrubby ecosystems and forests with dense undergrowth abound, where lianas and thorny plants make it difficult to pass through. Here nature prickles and the green is dark, brown and ochre, and the forest feels more uncomfortable than the ideal of colonised nature.
In this artistic-scientific encounter we will talk about the anthropocentric morality that we place on the forest and the European ideal that colonises us, about the "rebellious" plants, and about the possibility of claiming their being-in-the-world independently of their assembly with human moral norms.
With the participation of:
Ivn Prez Lorenzo, PhD research botanist at the Institut Botnic de Barcelona-CSIC.
Jordi Martnez Vilalta, professor of ecology at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona
Paula Bruna, postdoctoral artistic researcher at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona
Paula Bruna holds a PhD in fine arts and is an environmentalist. She researches on perspectives different from anthropocentrism through a combination of scientific basis, speculative fiction and artistic practice. She is currently a postdoctoral artistic researcher in the Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (UAB).
Jordi Martnez Vilalta holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences at the UAB. He is a professor of ecology at the UAB and a researcher at CREAF. His research focuses on the functioning of forest systems and, in particular, on how the mechanism of water transport to trees determines their response to drought and climate change.
Ivn Prez Lorenzo is a pre-doctoral research biologist at the Institut Botnic de Barcelona-CSIC. He specialises in botany, particularly asteraceous plants. He is currently researching flower structure and reproduction mechanisms, such as plant-insect interactions.
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