Our Projects
Curarte: Health in Progress
We come to a health centre to seek cure, yet in the market economies of today, treatment or medicine does not necessarily equal cure as such.
Free Radicals
Free Radicals is a two-year research project exploring the intersections between plant biodiversity and artistic practice, co-funded by Creative Europe.
Heirloom Futures
At a time when Europe’s plant knowledge archives risk being overlooked, Heirloom Futures repositions them as living infrastructures for planetary health—connecting biodiversity, care, and cultural memory.
Liminal Worlds
How do we assess the legacies of colonial-era figures today—individuals like Thaddaus Haenke whose actions have contributed to today’s environmental crises, yet also offer important insights into the preservation of irreplaceable natural heritage?
The Invisible Botany of Urban Spaces | the Czech Centre in Paris
Documentary photography, living plants and science are at the heart of this Paris exhibition, which explores our relationship with the plant world.
The Party and the Guests. Vector-borne diseases, indigenous knowledge, urban context
What are the challenges and use of plants in vector control, particularly in the context of future urban ecosystems? A series of interdisciplinary interventions at the Academie du Climat in Paris.
The Future of One Health: When Plants, People and Insects Collaborate
A multi-centric project that gathers researchers from France, Burkina faso and Haiti with the aim to imagine a better world through collaboration between plants, people and insects.
Heatwave Bouquet
A very unique immersive multisensory workshop with plants that are somewhat… dead.
Towards Future Ecologies
A blueprint for an experimental centre for local biodiversity and contemporary arts.
Plantlovers. The invisible botany of urban spaces.
A book tracing five years of Haenke against the phenomenon of house plants, placing it in a broader social, cultural, and environmental context.
Haenke x Designblok 2021
A series of both online and offline panels on the role of nature and plants in design, featuring eminent designers and creatives from across Europe.
Plants for senior care homes
A very lockdown project. If grandmas and grandpas can't go outside because, well, baby it’s COVID outside, then we must bring nature to them.
Phytophilia podcast
Listen to our podcast series Phytophilia, talking about the intertwining role of plants in our lives.
Hand sanitiser for hospitals
Making hand sanitiser for hospitals and senior care homes for free.
Zukunft Jetzt!
Biodiversity is being lost at an alarming rate. Why should this matter to people living in cities far away?
Botanical Sessions
Site-specific concerts set in tropical glasshouses and other locations where plants have taken over from humans.
Skaramagkas Physic Garden
Exploring the potential of medicinal plants among refugee communities in Greece
Club Tropicana
A green installation and a documentary evening followed by a debate with leading Czech experts on biodiversity.
Eska Restaurant
Paying homage to Czech woods and meadows through a collaborative design project in the heart of the Karlin district in Prague.