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Lee, Nicholas, Hodgson, Hannah E., Hann, Chris, O'Driscoll, Mike, Stebbings, Samantha, Matthewman, Colette, Kent, Miriam, Rant, Jenni and Osbourn, A. (2020) The Global Garden project : imagining plant science. Plants, People, Planet, 2 (6). pp. 602-613. doi:10.1002/ppp3.10133
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10133
Abstract
Here we investigate the application of cross-disciplinary approaches to explore societal perceptions of plants and their uses, focusing on high-value chemicals. The Global Garden project engages the public, researchers and regulators in day-long workshops that combine science, poetry and visual arts practice to foster participants’ skill in imagining and re-imagining relationships between high-value plant products, biotechnology, and social and ethical aspects of these. The project represents an intervention into discussions of science communications and public engagement, addressing the uses and benefits of arts-based approaches to foster imaginative engagement with plant science. The workshop reported here began with real plant case studies and a discussion of the aims of scientists using them. Participants were invited to respond to the issues of relationships between plants, chemicals, and people raised by the case studies through poetry and visual artwork. The poems and artwork that were produced show variation in the participants’ imaginings of plant science. They present distinctive visions of research and innovation and of the associated ethical and social implications. This type of forum, based on creative immersion, opens up opportunities for engaging with and exploring complex relations between plant biotechnology, society and ethics. This article offers a reflection on the uses, challenges and implications of arts-based approaches to research communications and public engagement that disrupts traditional knowledge transfer structures. In doing so, we frame the project within science communication pedagogies and consider public engagement a form of pedagogy.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Plant biotechnology, Plants, Biotechnology -- Social aspects, Plant genetics, Transgenic plants | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Plants, People, Planet | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2572-2611 | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | November 2020 | ||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 602-613 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1002/ppp3.10133 | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||||||
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