IE is presenting a collaborative workshop at the Nature of Cities Festival! Come join us to discuss our project on the PawPaw Tree.

This workshop is an interactive conversation exploring the conviction that the urban landscape be shaped by an engagement with a varied public in participatory rituals of cultivation and care, rather than minimal maintenance protocols and efficiency. The distinctive pawpaw tree, its history, growing conditions and physicality, serve as a catalyst for discussion. Fruiting Bodies seeks to demonstrate the viability of fruiting trees in the public realm, to make evident their many benefits, including their potential to engender a new participatory logic and to counter modernist, masculine ideals of the tidy city.