Event overview
This event is part of Art History Festival 2025 organised by the Association for Art History.
Drawing from the transformative potential of art practice and ecofeminist decolonising pedagogy, the guided walk Learning Collaboration with Fungi (co-designed by Lenka Vráblíková and Elspeth Mitchell) cultivates skills critical for fostering social and environmental justice. In addition to learning about the incredibly diverse biology and ecology of fungi, its aim is to facilitate unlearning of harmful habits such as anthropocentrism, extractivism, competitiveness, and accumulation-driven individualism and, instead, re-learn collaboration, care, reciprocal sharing, and compassion. The walk will be 2 hours long and will accommodate 20 participants (online booking together with information on accessibility will be available in advance). The walk will take place on the Goldsmiths campus.
Dr Lenka Vráblíková (Lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures) specializes in transnational feminisms, political ecology, deconstruction & new materialism, critical whiteness studies and eco-feminist art education. Her current research focuses on feminist visual ethnomycology, which examines the role mushrooms and their foragers have played in the cultural and political imagination of European heteropatriarchal and colonial modernity.
Photo Courtesy: Tom Turner, 2024.
Association for Art History Festival 2025
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Sep 2025 | 11:00am - 1:00pm |
Accessibility
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