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

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