The new Field Notes of the Biota Beings compile observations of plant and human interactions and exchanges. The Field Notes include a guidebook and casting cloth.

The latest edition titled Human⇆Plant Biome revisits old knowledge, introduces recent discoveries, and inspires alternative stories of a merging between plants and humans.

The Biota Beings are a proposal for a community 'in the making'. They form around a mission to develop a heightened sense and sensibility to connections with non-humans and dynamic natural systems on biome scales.

The casting cloth is a functional artefact created by the imagined Biota Beings.

Stories and discoveries within the tool share a common thread of finding closer relationships with plants and the fluid exchanges between us. If we allow their magic to guide us, there is much to learn from plants. Perhaps they might not be the silent bystanders and so different from us as we might once have thought. 

The cloth, featuring its new map, is not only a print. It's a versatile tool that follows in the vein of Japanese Tenugui and Furoshiki cloths. It can be worn as a scarf or transformed into a bag. It's a source of material for fixing things, a creative prompt, a wearable, and a symbol of change. 

The adaptability of the tool is a testament to the ethos of flexibility, a quality the Biota Beings believe is crucial in navigating a changing world.

The map encodes a system that is a tool to inspire change. The guidebook in the set helps read the messages that we can generate by the tool. These give ways to interpret the everyday and inspire other ways to consider ourselves as interconnected beings.

The latest edition of the Field Notes of the Biota Beings invites you to adventure and on your journey to meet botanical companions who unlock inspiration to make change.

Further information is available at the Field Notes of the Biota Beings.

The work builds on our previous Biota Beings project, available at www.burtonnitta.co.uk/biotabeings