Touching plants. Affective encounters in the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum of the Free University of Berlin (D10 [A07])

Subject Area Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
Term from 2020 to 2023
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 258523721
 

Project Description

This project analyses affective dynamics between humans and plants in the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum (BGBM) in Berlin-Dahlem. It examines sensual experiences in the encounter between visitors, gardeners and botanists and plants, and their potential to confirm or transform institutional orders that organize the relations between human and plant.
DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres
Subproject of SFB 1171:  Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds
Applicant Institution Freie Universität Berlin
Project Heads Professorin Dr. Sandra Calkins; Dr. Gerald Parolly, since 4/2022; Professor Dr. Albert-Dieter Stevens, until 12/2021