Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant

Abstract

Current research shows that plants are more complex beings than previously assumed. With reference to this, the SNSF research project of the Institute Art Gender Nature at the HGK Basel FHNW, “Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant”, negotiates the discourse of plant intelligence in the natural sciences, the humanities, and the arts. It explores the conceptualization of intelligence and its intertwining with concepts such as mind, consciousness, communication, memory, decision making, problem solving, learning, subjectivity. It asks whether this conceptualization makes sense of the behaviors of vegetal life and whether it promotes new perspectives on interspecies and terrestrial relationships.