The Chimera Plantarium Weekend
A weekend of workshops for local people to discover the wonder and beauty of our urban plants and to create wilder streets where we live.
Corby
Chimera Plantarium – Plant Propaganda 2
Our next plant propaganda billboard image features an an image that looks to plants, children and the future.
Child’s Play – Aeneas Wilder
A sculpture – performance – play culminating in the gradual build up and kickdown of the monumental wooden installation, Untitled #215.
Silencer – Maja Zećo
Look out for Maja Zećo negotiating Corby woods this September as Silencer – a performance in a sensory impairment soundwalking suit.
Child’s Play – Lodge Park Academy
A-level Art students from Lodge Park Academy worked with Aeneas Wilder to develop their own impermanent monumental sculptures.
Chimera Plantarium – Plant Propaganda
The first “plant propaganda” poster image is revealed in Corby as part of The Chimera Plantarium.
Chimera Plantarium Publication
A beautifully produced publication made in collaboration with Year 6 pupils, taking the form of a pressed plant herbarium with an engraved wooden case.
Chimera Plantarium – Workshop 3
Pupils used graphic design techniques to develop “plant propaganda” posters which will be cropping up on billboards across Corby.
Chimera Plantarium – Workshop 2
Corby school children create their own plant-alien communities and write letters to nature with Chiara Dellerba.
Chimera Plantarium – Workshop 1
Chiara Dellerba’s first Chimera Plantarium workshop, rethinking and redesigning public places from the perspective of weeds.