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- Nyberg, Eva, 1958, et al.
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Plants to the fore: Noticing plants in designed environments
- 2019
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Ingår i: Plants, People, Planet. - : Wiley. - 2572-2611. ; 1:3, s. 212-220
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Plants are not only essential for human health and well‐being, but are fundamental to life on Earth. Despite their central importance in sustaining life on this planet, many humans do not notice plants to the same extent as they do animals, a phenomenon described as “plant blindness”. Research indicates that multimodal and sensoric experiences might be significant tools for bringing about a shift away from plant blindness toward recognizing plants and their importance for life on Earth. This study seeks to explore the affordances of sensory‐rich indoor environments in two different settings; one where living animals are in the foreground (a science center), and one where living plants are in the fore (a greenhouse in a botanical garden). The participants in this study were elementary school student teachers. Data were collected through individual questionnaires that examined the student teachers' experiences visiting the two sites. The student teachers' answers are rich in aesthetic expressions, both regarding the animals and plants mentioned and regarding the environments studied. There is a dominance of animal references at the science center and a dominance of plant references from the botanical garden. In order for plants to be noticed in animal‐rich environments, they need to be foregrounded in the design of spaces and information about them clearly exposed to human view.
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- Sanders, Dawn, 1958, et al.
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Bortom ”Plant Blindness”: Att se växternas betydelse för en hållbar värld
- 2019
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Ingår i: Resultatdialog_VR_2019. - Stockholm : Vetenskapsrådet.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- För att elever ska utveckla en förståelse för växters betydelse är det viktigt att lärare kan förmedla kunskap om växter på ett intresseväckande sätt. Vi har använt oss av en teori om växtblindhet för att undersöka vilka kunskaper lärarstudenter har om växter och hur de relaterar till växter. För att göra det lättare för lärarstudenterna att identifiera växter har vi utvecklat specifika undervisningsverktyg. I vår studie spelar botaniska trädgårdar en nyckelroll.
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- Meehitiya, Luanne, et al.
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Life, Living and Lifelessness in Taxidermy
- 2019
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Ingår i: Natural History Dioramas-Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes. Scheersoi A., Tunnicliffe S. (red.). - Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature. - 9783030002077 ; , s. 97-112
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter extends and further develops a recent paper by two of the authors, Sanders and Hohenstein, by both drawing in a curatorial perspective and examining potentials of specific taxidermic displays for learning conversations. In the aforementioned paper we drew attention to research on the ways taxidermic display is currently used, the ways children learn through family conversation, and the types of understandings children are known to have about life and death. Our belief that these collections represent potential research spaces for understanding the impact of parental communication on children’s understandings of life and death underscores a guided reflection on the merits of taxidermic display for demonstrating ways in which concepts of life, and death, are discussed by families. Furthermore, we maintain that such studies might facilitate new interdisciplinary relationships between museum curators and researchers, thus contributing to wider debate on the place of natural history collections in society. To that end, this chapter deepens and extends previous discussions by a) bringing in a curatorial perspective through the addition of a third author, Luanne Meehitiya and b) reflecting on the content and genre of specific taxidermic displays in relation to possibilities for conversations pertaining to notions of life and death.
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- Sanders, Dawn, 1958
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Standing in the Shadows of Plants
- 2019
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Ingår i: Plants, People, Planet. - : Wiley. - 2572-2611. ; 1:3, s. 130-138
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This special issue of Plants, People, Planet brings together a wide range of perspectives on the topic of “plant blindness”—the widest to date in one issue—with contributions from scholars working across a diverse range of disciplines, from the humanities and social sciences to plant science, conservation, and ecology. We also take this opportunity to showcase the work of visual artists working at the interface of art and plant science, and educators who use plants as a key subject in their education practice. The geographical reach of the contributions is also extensive with contributions from around the globe and the Twittersphere.
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- Sanders, Dawn, 1958
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Taking a different View: Ecology across Borders
- 2019
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Ingår i: Embedding Ecology in Sustainable Development Goals Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 29 July - 2 August 2019. - : European Ecological Federation (EEF).
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How do we make public the private lives of plants in our science communication? Does the sound of storm petrels nesting under the cliff make a bigger impact on our audiences than words describing those sounds? How might taking a different view through art-based methods improve human understanding and sensitivity to the lives of other organisms? In this keynote presentation I will draw on inter-disciplinary research and teaching experiences to reflect on ecology across the borders between science and art in the 21st century.
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- Sanders, Dawn, 1958
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Trapped in Time: Lingering with "Plantness"
- 2019
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Ingår i: Plants, People, Planet. - : Wiley. - 2572-2611. ; 1:2, s. 64-66
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In modern urban existence, the complex lives of plants are often reduced to simple categories, which resonate with human utility. These categories speak little of the central role plants play in the ecological fabric of life on Earth. Plants have the ability to sense and respond to stimuli across various timescales and the time zones they inhabit are multi‐faceted. This complexity presents difficulties when the unfamiliar characteristics of "plantness" are revealed to everyday observers who may perceive plants as operating in a slow lane outside of their perception. This editorial draws attention to the rich time assemblages in which plants exist, and highlights the need for diverse representations with which to engage human attention to the botanical world.
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Standing in the Shadows of Plants: New Perspectives on plant blindness
- 2019
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Ingår i: Plants, People, Planet. ; 1:3, s. 129-300
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This special issue of Plants, People, Planet brings together a wide range of perspectives on the topic of “plant blindness”—the widest to date in one issue—with contributions from scholars working across a diverse range of disciplines, from the humanities and social sciences to plant science, conservation, and ecology. We also take this opportunity to showcase the work of visual artists working at the interface of art and plant science, and educators who use plants as a key subject in their education practice. The geographical reach of the contributions is also extensive with contributions from around the globe and the Twittersphere.
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