CCC ECR Reimagining Collections Workshop: Grasses in Cambridge Collections

Some plants are born invisible, some achieve invisibility, and some have invisibility thrust upon them. Grasses are a case in point. – Howard Thomas, “Grass Blindness” (2019)

How are grasses defined within the realms of science, history, and art and why is it that grasses are so often relegated to the background of human perception? Responding to the late Howard Thomas, this workshop questions how we can fight against “Grass blindness” to make the invisible visible through collections research.

In this inaugural Reimagining Collections event, members of the CCC ECR Network are invited to a day of collection visits to the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge University Herbarium where we will workshop how we think about human perceptions of nature by reimagining how we look at natural history collections.

A more detailed programme of the day's activities will be sent to you once registered.

Reimagining Collections takes place once a term focusing on varying topics in collections within the University of Cambridge hosted by the CCC ECR Network.

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