matylda
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What would our environment look like if the roles were reversed and the boundaries between the world of plants and the world of people disappeared?
How much we could learn through in-depth observation and understanding of the behavioral systems and actions of these small green organisms.
Why is the world so close to us, surrounding us everywhere, unnoticed and, although it is next door, it is so distant? And why do we feel the need to cut ourselves off from it?
Have you ever paid attention to the diverse vegetation of the courtyard? Have you noticed that we only look at them as spring or summer arrives?
Using the university’s courtyard every day, focused on our tasks, we miss other living beings who are just as much residents and users of this space. Observation of our daily environment allows us to notice how much space is set aside for us. Space that we do not share. We keep selfishly to ourselves and push other species aside, place them in specific, designated areas.
Creating structures that make us sensitive to nature makes us feel a closer bond with it. It could be likened to the relationship between us and our family. Let’s take care of nature the way we take care of for the people important to us. I think this approach to the natural world is to a large extent also connected with empathy. Careful observation of plants or animals activates a specific kind of sensitivity in us. It helps to see beauty but also suffering, thus teaching us how we should deal with it, but also how we should treat each other. Without exclusion, without intolerance, without prejudice or hierarchization.
With my project I wanted to leave people with a desire to look at these relationships, to encourage some childlike curiosity. Inspire people to observe and look for plants that appear appear in cities, in courtyards, in our spaces. To evoke a botanical approach that combines with wise care, empathy and compassion for plants. To induce an openness to a perspective in which, we can share our spaces, and vegetation is not just a creature for which we designate spaces but functions as an equal.
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