Description
This paper expands on Jamie Allen’s concept of “planetary intimacy” (2024) as the “trust and vulnerability necessary for building networks of solidarity”. Specifically, I discuss methods to create intimate learning in and outside the classroom to facilitate a sense of closeness with nonhumans to build more just worlds with them. Specifically, my contribution reflects on the experience of leading storytelling workshops to explore the possibility of “vegetal intimacy”. These workshops guide participants to reflect on their life with plants as an affective experience of worldmaking. As a result, the workshops practice the political potential of vegetal intimacy in creative ways to shape new and more radical ways to imagine the future.
