Epiphyte

Epiphyte. Plants, seeds and new imaginaries

Abstract

Immersed in the anthropocentric view, we have lost awareness of our environment, we have forgotten that our history cannot be written without the rest of the living species and that our future will not be possible if we do not repair our link with the planet. To observe attentively the world we inhabit can be a bitter exercise, but necessary if we want to gain time and help to turn the course of ecological and social deterioration of the present. What follows is a search for new ways of facing the ecosocial crisis, starting from the observation of the plant world as an intelligence from which to learn other forms of life, of community, of futures. The article presents the context, the reflective framework and the development of Epífita, a cultural project of research and dialogue between art and science, told from the personal experience that gave rise to it to its first public activity.