Berlin Botanical Garden

To get an idea of the feeling of being in Eden Project, especially the artificial biomes, we went to the Berlin Botanical Garden and its (very different) glass houses.

We recorded ambiences…

finks

frogs under water

water plants

We read excerpts of A.D.M. Rayner (1997): Degrees of Freedom, Living in Dynamic Boundaries…

“[…] the „cellular slime molds” and „true fungi” […] can develop both as seperate entities when external resource supplies are plentiful and as functionally integrated assemblies when ressources become limiting.
The concept of self, which might normally be thought to apply just to any seperate individual, may therefor need to be extended to include all entities capable of integration because of their likeness to one another.”

We took photos.

massive ferns from below
massive ferns from below
listening
listening
sensors
sensors
meeting of centipedes
meeting of centipedes
heart-shaped leafs
heart-shaped leafs
listening and recording
listening and recording
carnivorous plants
carnivorous plants
green shrubs behind glass
green shrubs behind glass
massive ferns
massive ferns
pink flowers on a bush
pink blossoms on a bush
spiralling leaf
spiralling leaf
listening to the underwater
listening to the underwater
the underwater
the underwater