Bath Spa University - Doing Together 2026

March 2026 – Bath Spa University – Doing Together 26

‍With Dr Suzi Richer and Karen Richmond

This was one of my first workshops in collaboration with two of my medical herbalist colleagues. It was a great event with an engaging audience and a great experience to be part of.

The workshop uses plant infusions as a research tool, inviting participants to attune to where and how plants are experienced in the body. Through individual and group organoleptic inquiry, the session investigates herbs not as fixed material structures but as active, dynamic matter — co-collaborators in a shared investigative process.

Rooted in methods drawn from herbalist training, the workshop draws on sensory feedback and felt experience to explore the interconnections between plants and human processes. It brings together medical herbalism, environmental archaeology, primary care mental health and artistic practice in a shared experiment that situates embodied knowledge at the centre of creative research.

The session engages with questions of materiality, care, ecology, distributed agency and the space of dialogue — considering how herbal practice might offer new frameworks for practice-based research.

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