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Monica Gagliano is a Research Associate Professor in evolutionary ecology and former fellow of the Australian Research Council. She is currently based at Southern Cross University where she directs the Biological Intelligence (BI) Lab funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. Though she began her career by studying animal behaviour, she quickly turned her attention to plant behaviour and cognition.  In recent years, she has blazed the trail for a brand new field called plant bioacoustics, showing that plants do make sounds; and by demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals, Gagliano has re-ignited the discourse on plant subjectivity and ethical and legal standing. Her studies have led her to author numerous groundbreaking scientific articles and to co-edit The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World (Lexington Books, 2015), The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy and Literature (Minnesota University Press, 2017) and Memory and Learning in Plants (Springer, 2018). Her research transcends the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism and encourages us to rethink plants as people–beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. In her latest book, Thus Spoke the Plant: A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants (North Atlantic Books, 2018), which she calls a “phyto-biography”, she describes her experiments that opened the space to begin to understand how to make contact with this other-than-human intelligence. For more information: www.monicagagliano.com

I acknowledge the original inhabitants of country, the native animals and plants and their continuing connection to land, sea and community, especially the Arakwal Country, a part of the Bundjalung Nation where I live. I offer my respect to them and their cultures, to the elders past and present, and to those who were removed from this deep precious connection.


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Planetary Regeneration

This project will take a creative-led transdisciplinary approach to the challenge of planetary regeneration. 

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This project will take a creative-led transdisciplinary approach to the challenge of planetary regeneration. 

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Reset: A New Public Agenda for the Arts offered two days and nights of thinking and discussion about how the arts and cultural sector could work to break out of the current impasse through a radical reorganisation of cultural practice and policy.

Adelaide, Kaurna Yerta
Nov 11 2021 To Nov 12 2021

The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence IS HERE! 

Join us for the book launch and be enchanted by a sharing of stories, dialogue, music and inspiration.

Santa Fe
Oct 28 2021

Field Trip is an international research symposium investigating creative practice at the intersection of art, science, technology and the environment. 

Sunshine Coast
Sep 25 2021

Una jornada de cocreación de historias, reflexiones, imágenes y sonidos sobre nuestra relación con las plantas.

Uma jornada de co-criação, reflexões, imagens e sons sobre a nossa relação com as plantas.

Santiago de Chile
Jul 09 2021 To Jul 09 2021

An online symposium that brings The Mind of Plants contributors together to share their reflections and various learnings with plants.

Stories, poetry and sound across a diversity of human languages and geographical landscapes. Come and join us!

USC Sunshine Coast
Apr 09 2021

Field Trip - Arts, Science, Tech and Environment Symposium

Sunshine Coast
Aug 08 2020

A five-week Eudlo Creek pilot project delivered in term 2 and engaging with the challenge of reinvigorating the creek that flows through the MIC grounds.

Montessori International College - Sunshine Coast
May 01 2019 To May 29 2019
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People + Plants Stories

Stories from across the globe about the relationship between people and plants

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