Motanafas project: Foraging with Lora Aziz

Join Essex based wildcrafter, artist and author Lora Aziz for an introduction to her current project Motanafas, which brings together art, science and digital technology to offer an interdisciplinary and inclusive response to climate change.

Motanafas in Arabic means a space to breathe and a space to connect. Through the art of storytelling and citizen science, Motanafas compiles a contemporary experience with the natural world, explored through a series of nature walks and artist led workshops to form part of an interactive comparative digital ethnobotanical collection of similar plant species found in the Al’tarfa, St Catherine (Egypt), and Colchester, Essex.

Foraging workshop

This is an outdoor workshop where you will learn to identify a range of local plants and trees around the grounds and will learn about the edible, medicinal and craft-suit abilities of the plants you find. You will also learn how to make observations, document, gather and photograph species. You are then invited to the Sociology Common Room (5A.325) for a foraged tea blend and discussion on the project as well as the opportunities available to get involved.

Please meet outside the SU Store on Square 4 at 1.55pm for the session to begin promptly.

How to book

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