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 **Upskilling in the art of conversation, with plants** **Upskilling in the art of conversation, with plants**
  
-Research period for [[www.transcontinentalgarden.net]] and an investigation into content, form, and methodology.+Research period (February and April 2013) for http://www.transcontinentalgarden.net and an investigation into content, form, and methodology.
  
 //Transcontinental Garden Exchange is the umbrella title of a research project and investigation  into plant sentience, and series of experiments in communication between homosapiens & flora that will build to a united act of gardening across countries and time zones. A floriligeum remix to highlight how our green friends have seeded changes in our own social history and behaviour.// //Transcontinental Garden Exchange is the umbrella title of a research project and investigation  into plant sentience, and series of experiments in communication between homosapiens & flora that will build to a united act of gardening across countries and time zones. A floriligeum remix to highlight how our green friends have seeded changes in our own social history and behaviour.//
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 To do this the project aims to mix differing discipline approaches to create an eclectic story and group actions/experiences. In so doing, it aims to bring together people from different disciplines (or non-disciplines) to reflect on and pool knowledge on plant signalling and human / plant communicative relationships. To do this the project aims to mix differing discipline approaches to create an eclectic story and group actions/experiences. In so doing, it aims to bring together people from different disciplines (or non-disciplines) to reflect on and pool knowledge on plant signalling and human / plant communicative relationships.
  
-Specifically my research springs from the more recent (17th C onward) history of women’s relationship with plants and its relationship with socio-political action for the rights of women (education, professional, sexual and more). In the context that 17th Century western women were criticised for expressing sexuality and reproductive knowledge through botany and botanical art.+Specifically my current research springs from the more recent (17th C onward) history of women’s relationship with plants and its relationship with socio-political action for the rights of women (education, professional, sexual and more). In the context that 17th Century western women were criticised for expressing sexuality and reproductive knowledge through botany and botanical art.
  
 I'm fascinated that artforms that we could consider benign today were considered dangerous in their own context. In a similar way botany and gardening are often considered benign yet carry such dangerous cultural, scientific and economic agendas. I'm fascinated that artforms that we could consider benign today were considered dangerous in their own context. In a similar way botany and gardening are often considered benign yet carry such dangerous cultural, scientific and economic agendas.
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 Books Books
  
-• Botany Sexuality and Women’s Writing 17th – 18thC, Samantha George +  * Botany Sexuality and Women’s Writing 17th – 18thC, Samantha George 
-• What A Plant Knows, Daniel Chamovitz, an overview of information on recognised signalling methods in plants +  * What A Plant Knows, Daniel Chamovitz, an overview of information on recognised signalling methods in plants 
-• Hildegard von Bingen +  * Hildegard von Bingen 
-• Aroma +  * Aroma 
-• A History of the Senses, Dianne Ackerman+  * A History of the Senses, Dianne Ackerman
  
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-• Circus performer and grass scuplture Cirque d’Ici+  * Circus performer and grass scuplture Cirque d’Ici
  
 [[http://fo.am/open_sauces/]] [[http://fo.am/open_sauces/]]
  
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