The Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory: Public art in collaboration with seeds, time, and weeds

In this talk I explore how public sculpture and ecology fieldwork come together in the Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory, an ongoing art-science experiment now in its third season. This collaborative project facilitates re-wilding interventions in institutional and residential lawns from seeds lying dormant in the soil. From plant-based sculptures and community science workshops to novel approaches to data collection and presentation, the project offers multiple entry points through which to consider lawn habitats and their impacts on the communities—human and nonhuman—who live in and among them.