A Growing Gathering Around Plants and Stories The latest Writing (with) Plants session brought together a large and geographically diverse group of participants for a two-hour online gathering dedicated to marsh reeds and the myth of Syrinx. I […]
Skipping International Women’s Day, Rewilding St Patrick’s Day instead
Bringing Back the Snakes and Wild Waters to Ireland Every year as Saint Patrick’s Day approaches, I find myself thinking about snakes. Not the symbolic ones we are told were driven out of Ireland by Saint Patrick, but […]
Rivers, Folk Songs, and the More-Than-Human World: Exploring Latvian Ecomythology
Our summer symposium 2026 will take place in Latvia. Therefore, during our NSU circle winter symposium on Eco-mythology (17-18 January 2026), Kārlis Lakševics, a lecturer at the University of Latvia, shared ideas what an Eco-mythology […]
The Writing(with)plants care(work)book is here – Reserve Your Copy
The book What if writing could become a form of care? The care(work)book grows out of five years of writing(with)plants sessions, collective gatherings where people write alongside plants and landscapes, slowing down to notice, reflect and imagine […]
An ecomyth: Rewriting and living the Kalevala’s Nine diseases and sampo
Eco + MythologyEco from oikos: home, household.Myth from mythos: story, narrative.Logy from logos: knowledge, deep inquiry. Eco+Mythology is the art and practice of creating new stories, ceremonies, and rituals calibrated to the needs, challenges, and resources of our time. We live […]
Co-creating an apothecary experience with design students (and Celtic birth trees?)
Last week, together with Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri, I facilitated a design workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, with Master’s students in architecture, interior architecture, product development, drawing, and the arts. The overarching theme? Be+longing. There were eighteen workshops running […]
A warm data lab with students and plants during a design workshop in Antwerp
I am not a trained Warm Data Lab host, although I have participated in several labs. I don’t consider myself an expert. However, I often collaborate with trained Warm Data hosts in larger learning and […]
Join us this summer in enchanting Latvia
Hosted by the Nordic Summer University Study Circle 5: Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices with/in the More-than-Human World In hyperindividualised societies most of us are trained into super-autonomy and lose capacities to care for self, […]
You are invited to join writing(with)Marsh reed and Michael Marder on March 8th
Yes, that’s a lot of M’s in the title. What if we didn’t rewrite dark myths into prettier stories, but learned how to walk through them together? On Sunday, March 8th, 15-17.00 (Brussels time), join us […]
Writing with Place and Mythopoetic Plants: Marsh Reed and the Medusa Head Cactus
In January, Lisa Sattell hosted two sessions focused on the same plant: Medusa Head, a cactus that is, botanically speaking, not quite a cactus. She also emphasized that these were not simply writing-with-plants sessions, but writing-with-mythopoetic-plants sessions, because these […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 