An open air, interactive talk by Julia Morris. Parks, wastelands, building sites and overgrown ruins all offer urban ecologies for a multitude of non-human city dwellers. But who do these spaces belong to? Who gets to decide what happens here? This interactive event in the (de)Bordering plot asks participants to consider non-humans as citizen species. Julia Morris, […]

A discussion and celebration of plants at the (de)Bordering plots in Royal Fort Gardens, University of Bristol, co-hosted by Brigstow Institute and MMB. "Plants are the most important, least understood, most taken for granted of all living things” (Wilkins, 1988). We need plants for life. Plants sustain us and give us joy. But are all […]

This month the MMB Reading Group are meeting to discuss Rosi Braidotti’s work on the nomadic subject, Braidotti, R., 2014. Writing as a nomadic subject. Comparative Critical Studies, 11(2-3), pp.163-18 and Braidotti, R., 2013. Metamorphoses: Towards a materialist theory of becoming. John Wiley & Sons. The discussion will be led by Tom Allport, Honorary Senior […]