Mini-conference organized by Aniella Tiedje, Elsa Salonen, Regine Rørstad Torbjønsen and Filipe-Guilherme Pirl, who researched together last semester in the course „creative research: plant consciousness“ at Humboldt-University Berlin.

Saturday 23rd of July, 13:00-20:30

13:00 – introductory remarks

13:30 – 14:30 – the sensibility of flowers – eike wittrock (university of hildesheim)

14:45 – 15:30 – screened interview on plant senses and plant intelligence – dieter volkmann (izmb, university of bonn)

15:30–16:00 – presentation of art installations from participants of „creative research: plant consciousness“ course on the 1st floor

16:00 – 17:00 – plant meditation with basil / ayurveda tradition: 20 minutes guided meditation, reflection through drawings. guided by cordula linke and elsa salonen – on 2nd floor

17:30 – 18:30 – the concept of plant consciousness and the problems of consciousness research – filipe-guilherme pirl (humboldt-university of berlin)

18:45 – 19:45 – open panel discussion on the articistic in contrary to the scientific approach to plant consciousness – with tba, elsa salonen, filipe-guilherme pirl and you

20:00 – 21:00 – screening of „tba“

sunday 24th of July, 16:30 – 21:00

16:30 – introductory remarks

17:00 – 18:00 – screened interview  on plant neurobiology – frantisek baluska (izmb, university of bonn)

18:15 – 19:15 – current research of minimal intelligence lab & ecological psychology – paco calvo (universidad de murcia)

19:30 – 21:00 panel discussion on the concept of plant consciousness with paco calvo (minimal intelligence lab, university of murcia) and tba (tba, humboldt-university berlin) moderated by filipe-guilherme pirl

23 – 24 

1st floor of laube: art installations by elsa salonen, regine rørstad torbjønsen and aniella tiedje

2nd floor of laube: books on plant intelligence and plant consciousness in reading corner on 2nd floor