Seeds

3 units

Seeds have much to teach us as metaphor and material to explore ecologies, landscapes, biodiversity, biomimicry, technology, engineering, climate change and food systems. Through selective breeding, seeds and plants have been bred to produce desired characteristics since the dawn of humanity. This has been so successful that the codependency between seeds and humans has grown and never been more evident than in agribusiness today. From the Svalbard Global Seed vault to Bayer/Monsanto this course will use seeds to investigate historic and contemporary ideas about food and life on this planet.