In, From, and With: Exploring Collaborative Survival is a collectively constructed lexicon that assembles twenty-four contributors — botanists, artists, agricultural producers — into a sensorial inquiry of how bodies, ecologies, and practices might sustain one another.
About This Book
Part glossary, part living document, this book reframes the lexicon as a site of collective action. Through terms selected by a wide range of contributors and woven together with edible and non-edible recipes, it asks what it means to learn through the body — to metabolise language rather than merely read it. The notion of collaborative survival is treated not as abstraction but as something enacted: braided through practice, pedagogy, and intimate acts of contemporary consumption. With a preface by anthropologist Anna Tsing, whose work on multispecies entanglement grounds the project, the book sits at the intersection of ecological thinking, interspecies relations, and participatory art.
Key Features
- 109 pages of collectively authored lexicon entries, edible and non-edible recipes, and sensorial pedagogies
- Edited by Grace Denis; designed by Gal Sherizly
- Preface by Anna Tsing; contributions from twenty-four practitioners including Adwoa Addae, Angela Chan, David Horvitz, Fernando García-Dory, Jessie French, Catriona Sandilands, the Terrapolis Collective, and more
- Published by Offset Santiago, ISBN: 9783947516148
What You'll Discover
- How a collectively constructed lexicon can function as both pedagogical tool and embodied practice, rather than passive reference
- The body as a fulcrum for processing ecological and interspecies terminology — digestion, literally and conceptually, as a mode of understanding
- Edible and non-edible recipes as a form of sensorial pedagogy, collapsing the boundary between reading and doing
- How twenty-four contributors from across botany, art, agriculture, and activism approach the shared problem of survival under conditions of ecological precarity
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 109
- Dimensions: 150 x 190 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783947516148
- Publisher: Offset Santiago
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Artists, designers, researchers, and educators working at the intersection of ecology, interspecies relations, participatory practice, and embodied pedagogy.