Imagine 2020 (2.0) – ART, ECOLOGY AND POSSIBLE FUTURES SUMMER LAB #1: TOXIC TOUR

Photo: Tanja Radež

Locations: University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana, Ljubljana Marsh Nature Park, Planina Cave

Participants of the Imagine 2020 Summer Lab will engage in a 3-day field trip, starting from the University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana to the Ljubljana Marsh Nature Park and the Planina Cave.
They will focus on the changing interrelations and co-relations imposed by the increasing pollution on the fragile equilibrium of Ljubljana’s marsh ecosystem, by observing and giving voice to its non-human dwellers whose languages we may only imagine – waters (rivers, sources, undercurrents), plants (invasive and indigenous species), animals (birds, frogs, wild pigs, mosquitoes) – and entities such as the geological period, micro-climate and specific geography of the locations. (more…)