ABOUT                                               


    CRA
    Roundtables
    People
    Book Series


RESEARCH                                    


    PhD Research
    MA Research
    Group Projects


EVENTS                                              


    Talks
    Fieldworks
    Public Forums
    War Inna Babylon
 

RESOURCES                                       


    Glossary
    Publications
    Para-Pedagogy



CRA




Archive Fieldtrip to Kew Gardens’ Economic Botany Collection
2 December 2019



This archive fieldtrip to the Kew Garden Economic Botany Collection foregrounds colonial archives and their role in the structuring of knowledge.

Facilitated by Dr. Mark Nesbitt & Riccardo Baldano, PhD researcher & “wood enthusiast”
Resources:

Formafantasma exhibition “Cambio” at the Serpentine. The MA students visited this exhibition 4 November 2020 to see how the Kew Economic Botany Collection had been re-staged within a contemporary art & design context.

Read “Seeds of Industry and Empire” by Mark Nesbitt & Carline Cornish here

Read “The Wood Collection (Xylarium) of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew” by by Carline Cornish, Peter Gasson, & Mark Nesbitt here