How can we, in times of climate change and species extinction, broaden our view of plants and include them as co-creative actors in artistic processes?
Guided by composer, sound artist and plant ambassador Cassis B Staudt, students from the Department of Design at Hochschule Mainz explored these and other questions in a three-day workshop at the LUX Pavilion and in the forest.
Alongside her work as a film composer, Cassis works intensively with the biodata sonification of plants and is one of the German pioneers of this artistic practice. The workshop became a joint interdisciplinary lab of biodata sonification, visual media, field recordings, mindfulness and improvisation — always centred on plants and our own perception of non-human actors in the artistic process.
In autumn 2026, five video works created during the workshop will be published here.
Funded by the President’s Innovation Fund “Innovative Lehre” (Innovative Teaching) of Hochschule Mainz, 2026.