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Location: online Date: 20.10.2021 class="st0" cx="4.4" cy="3.4" r="0.8"/> Duration: 1 month

Jazmin Morris
Care and Computing workshops

Jazmin started her full moon reflection by hosting a session on the Physic Garden Network's Monday evening online chat group on community, care and computing. She introduced her artistic practice and the concept of Internet Equality and lead a discussion around the similarities between gardening communities and digital communities. The Network explored the similarities between the Physic Garden Network and the open-source technology movement and asked: what can technologists learn from nature?

Following on from this discussion, Jazmin travelled to Accrington to run a second session in person with some women from the Network using 3D sculpting-based CAD (Computer Assisted Design) web app SculptGL. Earlier in the year, endobiogenic medical herbalist Mara Baughman had run some close observation workshops on the Monday evening chats, asking the growers on the Network to pay closer attention to the physicality of their medicinal herbs as a way of learning more about how they work with the body to heal. Building from both her own workshop, and Mara's, Jazmin decided to focus the SculpGL session on the roots of medicinal plants.

The women who attended the workshop all created their own 3D objects, something none of them had done before. You can see some of the sculptures illustrated here, and Jazmin has also downloaded them to potentially include them in a collaboratively-built computer game situated around climate change and collective identity that she is currently working on. 



Jazmin Morris is a Creative Computing Artist and Educator based in London.

Her personal practice and research explore representation and inclusivity within technology. She uses free and open-source tools to create digital experiences that highlight issues surrounding gender, race and power; focusing on the complexities within simulating culture and identity.



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Photograph: Christian Cassiel