This interdisciplinary workshop explores the intersection of literary ecocriticism and participatory art through the creation of "botanical biographies": cast impressions that combine physical plant matter with literary texts. Participants will engage in a hands-on process of creating plaster casts of plants while incorporating literary quotations, resulting in pieces that give material shape to the relationship between nature and text.

The workshop culminates in a collaborative narrative exercise where individual plaster pieces become "pages" in a larger environmental story. Through this hands-on engagement with materiality, text and nature, the workshop offers a unique platform for exploring contemporary ecocritical themes while creating enduring artistic artefacts that embody the complex relationships between literary expression and the natural world. The workshop will be led by Daniela Dora, Stepanka Facerova and Mansi Shouche.