Presentation at Plant Science UK 2013 Conference Dundee, Scotland

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Re-Engaging with plants
through living specimens
And new technologies
Dawn Sanders
Gothenburg University
#plantscienceuk2013

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carchanging day motion forest
season landscape orange October Autumn
leaves
transport foliage traffic tree yellow pavement blue
green fast plants land road park grass
speed drivingnature verge brown
movingred tree transportation sky
outdoor motorway blur

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Plants: A blur through
A moving window?

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Plants: Framed in a photo?

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http://www.olloclip.com
#olloclip
Macro

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Biological illustrations
Observing
Communicating
Questioning
Mapping
Modelling
Recording
Source NHM Images of Nature Gallery

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Style
The Linnean Style
Isolated Specimen
The Ecological Style
Context
Reference Judith Magee, NHM

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Seeing Plants
Plant Blindness (Wandersee and Shussler,2001)
Learning to Look (Attenborough, 1995)
Time to Look (Eberbach and Crowley, 2009)

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Interdisciplinary Research
Proposal Questions
How is botanical knowledge transformed
between botanical science settings and science
education?
What are the affordances of living collections and
their representations in these transformations?

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Discussion
‘Nature invites us to lay our
eye level with her smallest
leaf ’.
Thoreau
Sculpture Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Dublin

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Discussion
‘ By the help of
microscopes there is
nothing so small, as to
escape our enquiry. ’
Hooke
Van Leeuwenhoek’s lenses, Leiden

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Scale
matters

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Tack
Rebecka Nordström-Graf, Eva Nyberg, Maria
Svensson, Åke Ingerman, Mari Källersjö, Bente
Eriksen-Molau, Alexandra Weilenmann,
Thomas Hillman, Beata Jungselius, Berit
Askling, Ann-Marie von Otter, Helen Ekvall,
Eileen Cox (NHM), The SAPS Team
(Cambridge),Karen Lee and Claire Bushell, JIC,
(Norwich).