Sophia Overturf
CODES
Dr.Hildebrandt
10/24/24
After doing a little bit of research I found that Kew gardens is working on a plan to decolonize their garden. It may not be exactly like our plan as we only plan to inform the people who come to the garden. But their plan is in a way similar as it is going to inform people about the colonialism in the garden. Which is what we are trying to do, since regular people who enter the garden aren’t as knowledgeable. We have learned that colonialism is everywhere when it comes to plants, we also learned that it’s the reason plants are named the way they are. The only insight I think we could give them, is just offering knowledge about what we already know about colonialism. And thinking about their possible feedback about what we know, but since they are a garden, they probably know a great deal about colonialism. The readings we need to get ahold of are basically anything that we can find about colonialism and what others are doing about it. But currently as of writing this I wouldn’t know what to start looking for first when it comes to things to read. As colonialism isn’t the most talked about topic, it is talked about but sometimes locating the possible knowledge that we need can lead to difficulties. Other people that are doing similar work are the indigenous knowledge group, as they are also focusing on how people are affected by the naming of plants and the lost knowledge when it comes to those names. Our projects differ because they are looking more into native plants and our research leads us to knowledge from around the world.