E44 LIVE: Other modes of becoming: on plant intelligence and human-plant relationships // ABIGAIL SYKES & CECILIA ÅSBERG
EPISODE DESCRIPTION:
Research of recent decades reveals how plant intelligence is vastly more complex and multifaceted than Western science has previously recognised. Plants communicate, interpret and learn. They warn each other of danger and respond intelligently in their relationships. These new insights call into question our assumptions about other-than-human lifeforms – could this usher in a shift in our relationship to the rest of the living world?
Cecilia Åsberg is Professor of Gender, Nature, Culture and Scientific Director of Posthumanities Hub, Linköping University
Abigail Sykes is a journalist and educator working with sustainability, justice and regenerative transition.
This conversation was hosted by the Uppsala Art Museum together with Forest of Thought Podcast and CEMUS, Uppsala University, in conjunction with the museum’s Eija-Liisa Ahtila exhibition, A POSSIBLE IMAGE – of what is just becoming reality curated by Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson.
