Controlling Plants, Growing Environments - I

Abstract

The first session of this panel will include papers that deal with specific plants, and how this work affects and (re)defines notions of the environment or larger ecologies. It aims to be a first set of provocation for the ontological separation between plants and environments, which will be followed by a reverse provocation in the following session.

Individual Presentations

• Civic Epistemology and Plants: Lichen as Biomonitors of Environmental Health - Aja Grande, MIT

• To Kill or To Care?: Invasive Species Science, Local Knowledges, and Kudzu - Garrett Bunyak

• “Mauvaises Herbes”: Vegetal Recalcitrance in the Plantationocene - Jessica Caporusso Caporusso, York University

• The Open Ecologies of Kelp: The Ocean Food and Energy Farm Project, 1974 to 1977 - David Stentiford, Stanford University

Session Organizer

• Alex Rewegan, MIT