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Thinking with plants is an approach, that centres the thinking-with, as a de-colonial posture and a posture of listening to plants, gardens, ecosystems.
Thinking-with, questions the order of knowledge, in which a subject has to kill something, where expulsion of the object of knowledge from the self is a prerequisition to becoming knowledgeable about it. Thinking-with juxtaposes to this a thinking that stays in connection to its materials. This is a radical shift from dominant traditions of knowing and of science that base themselves on principles of a clear separation of subject and object.
Thinking with PLANTS profits from the richness of plant life and of hour history as a species that lives by, from and with plants since our very beginning.
The term Thinking-with-Plants was coined by the masters program in transdisciplinarity of the Zurich art school for a project week.