Tag Archives: AwhiWorld

Finding ancestral threads of connection

As part of an ongoing collaboration and partnership with AwhiWorld, under the banner of Tasman Threads, Maggie Buxton and Tracey Benson share many synergies in their creative research, not least a commitment to transdisciplinary practice in its fullest expression as per Basarab Nicolescu’s 1994 Charter of Transdisciplinarity. One of the core tenets of the CharterContinue reading “Finding ancestral threads of connection”

Alternative Reality Gardening

An AwhiWorld project In 2023, Dr Maggie Buxton curated and produced a publication and symposium project titled Alternative Reality Gardening, which aimed to open portals to different realities using the gardening theme. The project invited scientists, technologists, theorists, poets, crafters, dancers, artists, and engineers from AwhiWorld’s cross-disciplinary network of collaborators and partner organisations to contribute.Continue reading “Alternative Reality Gardening”

Plant play in Whangarei

In late May, Tracey headed over to Whangarei in Northlands Aotearoa to work with partners AwhiWorld on the continuing collaboration with Treecreate. While Tracey was there, AwhiWorld and ThoTho facilitated the #Bios occupation of the Whangarei Art Museum for three weeks as part of the #Awhiincubator project. It was a very rich time, spent workingContinue reading “Plant play in Whangarei”