THE PLANT-HUMAN COMMUNICATION PROJECT

Restoring our intuitive sense of belonging within our natural ecosystems

Welcome to
the more than
human
world.

The Plant-Human Communication Project is an (inter)activist effort bridging neuroscience, plant science, creative technology, and the arts. Supported by the Dutch Creative Industries Fund, our interdisciplinary team is working towards a multi-species understanding of communication, intelligence, and affection. We facilitate experiences of direct interspecies connection in hopes of reigniting urgently needed relationships of reciprocity between humans and the earth.

The project is engaged with bridging the gap between human and plant sentience, but also between scientific, artistic, and other ways of knowing. Serving as a globally accessible space for interdisciplinary exchange, this website invites listening to and interpretation of plant experience. We believe that placing art and science in conversation and collaboration will be key to social change: where no method is more simplistic than the other, but together they are simply more.

Project Happenings

THE PLANT IS PRESENT

Our immersive installation series works to enable an experience of direct interspecies reciprocity via digital technology, electrical potentials from brain and phloem, and multisensory artistic media.

The Plant-Human Quarterly

Our literary magazine explores the myriad ways writers make manifest their relationship to the botanical world, approach what we perceive as other, and enter a plant’s-eye-view of the world.

The Plant-Human Open Mic

Our open source platform invites interpretations of both raw plant experience and the human relationship with nature, from the vantages of science, art, and other knowledge practices.

Advisory Council

Dr. Jerry van DijkEcology, Utrecht University

Dr. Jerry van Dijk

Ecology, Utrecht University

Dr. Karen KlothPlant Physiology & Entomology, Wageningen University

Dr. Karen Kloth

Plant Physiology & Entomology, Wageningen University

Dr. Viola StoermerCognitive Neuroscience,  Dartmouth University

Dr. Viola Stoermer

Cognitive Neuroscience,
Dartmouth University

Dr. Edward (Ted) FarmerPlant Electrophysiology & Molecular  & Genetic Biology, University of Lausanne

Dr. Edward (Ted) Farmer

Plant Electrophysiology & Molecular & Genetic Biology,
University of Lausanne

Dr. Natasha MyersAnthropology & STS, York University

Dr. Natasha Myers

Anthropology & STS,
York University

Dr. Simon GilroyPlant Molecular Biology, Electrophysiology & Astrobotany, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Dr. Simon Gilroy

Plant Molecular Biology, Electrophysiology & Astrobotany,
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Dr. Ronald PierikPlant Photophysiology,  Utrecht University

Dr. Ronald Pierik

Plant Photophysiology,
Utrecht University

Dr. Tom van TeunenbroekEnvironment and Health expert, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment

Dr. Tom van Teunenbroek

Environment and Health expert, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment

Come Closer?

 We are always open for collaboration, conversation, confrontation, or conspiration!