Inclusive Ecologies is leading a workshop at The Nature of Cities Festival this Friday, Feb 26th, as part of their seed sessions interactive programming. Fruiting Bodies seeks to demonstrate the viability of fruiting trees in the public realm, to make evident their many benefits, and their potential to engender a new participatory logic and to counter modernist ideals of the “tidy” city. Centered on the distinctive pawpaw tree, and the compelling narrative strands its history, growing conditions, and physicality suggest. We aim to utilize the pawpaw tree to explore issues related to participation, technology, feminist notions of care, embodiment, and the ways in which urban spaces are complex entanglements of people, animals, plants, and technological structures. This workshop is an exploratory session where we will look at different examples of plants in relation to urban space, as well as the challenges of working sustainability when utilizing environmental sensing technologies and other forms of digital interventions that may have unsustainable implications. The workshop aims to generate conversation, connections, and ideas, as we develop the Fruiting Bodies project.
Fruiting Bodies at The Nature of Cities Festival