guided tour of the barbican estate

Coinciding with the Our Time on Earth exhibition participants took a walk through the Barbican estate in the City of London, stopping at plants and sharing stories from a queer perspective. Inviting co-creation, and aspiring to demolish hierarchies, we invited participants to bring their own stories and experiences of plants to share. We acknowledged there are many ways of understanding, knowing and connecting with plants.

Queer Botany is a project that studies, questions, investigates and affirms connections between queerness and plants. The project emerged from the theoretical lens of queer ecology, which brings together queer theory and eco-criticism. It aims to share marginalised perspectives and support more diverse representations in the environmental movement and the outdoors. Queer Botany has hosted online botanical drawing sessions, installed temporary interpretive displays, and held guided tours.