Co-Creating Speculative Ecosystems

Art, Science, and the Invasive Plant Being

AvAntía Iglesias

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Focusing on four plant species in the riparian landscapes of Galicia (Northern Spain), this book examines the ecological, conceptual, artistic, and material reality of exotic–invasive plants and the traces they leave behind after land management processes. Rather than treating these individuals as problems, this research approaches them as collaborators. Through artistic practice and scientific experimentation, vegetal biomass is transformed into new materials —pigments, paper —and artworks, opening unexpected paths for creation and reflection. Blending theory with practice, this book brings together art experiences, ecological thinking, environmental humanities, and experimental processes to question the boundaries between disciplines, nature and culture, and human and non-human agency. Finally, the author proposes that art and science, working together, can help us perceive the complexity of ecosystems and rethink our role within them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Plant Studies
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9798216369196

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Antía Iglesias is a Spanish, independent artist and researcher working within the fields of forestry engineering and expanded arts. She is currently a member of the dx5 Digital and Graphic Art Research Group and AF4 Forestry Engineering Research Unit, both at the University of Vigo, and EcoBDLab Research Group at the European University of Madrid

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In an era defined by ecological uncertainty, this book offers a necessary shift in how we understand life. Antía Iglesias dissolves the boundaries between art and science, inviting us to recognize plants not as passive matter, but as intelligent, responsive agents shaping our shared world. Through a rich interplay of research, material experimentation, and speculative imagination, she reveals how so-called invasive species can become collaborators in new ecological narratives. This is not just a study of plants—it is a call to rethink what it means to be alive. Urgent, poetic, and intellectually rigorous, this work expands how we see, think, and coexist.

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue: How could art & science collaboration approach us to other living-beings? Block 1: The Invasive Plant Being and its Waste by-product Chapter 1: Introduction to the notion of Invasive-Exotic Plant Chapter 2: Nature perspectives in Environmental HumanitiesChapter 3: Vegetal Waste Management for Art Practice Block 2: The hybridization of Art and Science: Languages, approaches, methodologies Chapter 4: Analysis of methodological similarities Chapter 5: Weaving interdisciplinarity in Art projects: Cases of study Chapter 6: Scientific languages and tools in Art CreationBlock 3: Scientific research as artistic procedural art: Conclusions of the study Glossary: Related terminology