CROSS-POLLINATIONS // Public seminar 3. Human-plant entanglements

Wednesday 12 April 17:00 - 19:00

This third and last edition of the lecture series reconsiders the relationship between human and plant life. How are plants and humans in the Petunia collection entangled in processes of making meaning? Charles Rouleau, coordinator of Casino Display – Space for Artistic Research (Luxemburg), will present his project Woven in Vegetal Fabric, which explores human-plant entanglements through apprenticeship and collaboration. Dr. Pamela Strazzer, core member of the Plant Development and Genetics research group, will talk about how petunia research will help to solve tomorrow’s challenges of becoming circular and reducing our footprint in the world.

Date: 12 April 2023
Time: 17:00 -19:00
Location: BG 3
Room: VOX-POP

Human-plant entanglements: programme

17:00 – 17:45 Charles Rouleau (Casino Display Luxembourg): “On plant-human collaborative research”
17:45 – 18:30 Pamela Strazzer: “Solving tomorrow’s challenges: Petunia research in biology and agriculture”
18:30 – 19.00 Q&A (moderated by Martin van Wijk)

Speakers

Charles Rouleau

Charles Rouleau is currently project coordinator at Casino Display, the research-oriented division of Casino Luxembourg, where he has instigated a program of artistic research labs based on collaborative research. These artistic research labs seek to create forums where artists, academics, scientists and thinkers meet to ponder, work and experiment together. The outcome of these labs takes many forms; exhibitions, performances, podcasts, and a growing series of publications.

Pamela Strazzer

Pamela Strazzer is a PostDoc in the Plant Development and Genetics Department at University of Amsterdam. She got her PhD in Applied Biotechnology in Italy. Her research focuses on vacuoles, the largest structure in plant cells, and how they can be used to produce proteins of interest for different applications.

Important Information

What? Public Seminar 3: Human-plant entanglements
When? 12 April 2023, 17:00-19:00
Where? VOX-POP, Binnengasthuistraat 9
Costs? Free!

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About CROSS-POLLINATIONS: Art and the Petunia Collection

The lecture series is part of the public programme of the exhibition CROSS-POLLINATIONS: Art and the Petunia Collection. CROSS-POLLINATIONS is on display from Thursday 30 March until Thursday 13 April at VOX-POP, the creative space of the humanities faculty. The exhibition draws on artistic research to explore the porous boundaries between the humanities and natural sciences, between discourse and matter, and between plant and human worlds. CROSS-POLLINATIONS is part of a collaboration between the faculties of the Humanities and the Natural Sciences encompassing a digital platform and physical exhibition. The exhibition at VOX-POP can be visited between 10.00 and 17.00 on workdays.

BG 3

Room VOX-POP
Binnengasthuisstraat 9
1012 ZA Amsterdam