Plant Relations Lab

Plant Relations Lab (@wei.iyu @noora.yulia @stanbam1 @linseyrendell ) is hosting a reading circle this afternoon to collectively read and think-with texts from @jessicajlee @ninamingya @kyomaclear — and you’re invited ✨ This session is a pre-gathering to tomorrow’s colloquium: « Many-Tendrilled Reaching and Writing: A workshop on creativity, plants, and the craft of writing » with @jessicajlee 🌱✏️ Hosted by @hgkbasel_criticalmedialab and Plant Relations Lab, as part of the CML «Rehearsing» Thread and @hgkbasel_transversaldesign programme, the colloquium invites participants to consider how stories of migration and belonging transverse human and more-than-human experiences, approaching « reaching towards » as a method of getting as close as possible to life’s complexities — where fragments, gaps, and poetic interludes help us reach towards futures shaped by community, renewal, and justice. Warm thanks to @helenvpritchard for inviting us to co-organise this event 💚 ܁ . ⊹ ₊ ܁. @plantrelationslab is a practice space for exploring relationality with plants, soil, and digital-organic forms. It values process over product, working within soft containers that support slowness and emergence. The Transversal Design working group resists urgency and values dialogue and care as essential parts of knowledge-making.

We are glad to announce that award-winning author Jessica J. Lee ( @jessicajlee )—author of Turning, Two Trees Make a Forest, and Dispersals (which we present in this post)—is joining us for a Special CML Colloquium hosted by Critical Media Lab and Plant Relations Lab as part of the Rehearsing module of our MA. "Many-Tendrilled Reaching and Writing" A workshop on creativity, plants, and the craft of writing 🗓️ 6 May 2026 | 10:00–17:00 📍 FoodCultureLab @hgkbasel_foodculturelab , Basel ✉️ Registration required (limited places) 🔗 Details via link: https://criticalmedialab.ch/many-tendrilled-reaching-and-writing/ The colloquium explores writing as a relational practice—attuning to plants, place, and more-than-human worlds. Through shared prompts and dialogue, it engages “many-tendrilled reaching” as a way of thinking and writing with complexity, where fragments and connections open new forms of attention.