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The Experience of Plants & Imagination in Science

The work of Zoe Schlanger and Monica Gagliano.

Two related videos. I am reading The Light Eaters at the moment, and it clicks with ideas about the variety of experience. Our experience rests in our Umwelt, our lived environment based on our bodies and ways of sensing. Plants and animals just have different umwelts. These two women tell us about the umwelt and the experience of plants. In her part Monica also talks about the importance of imagination in scientific research.

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