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Plant Intelligence A text by Stefano Mancuso

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In 2019, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presented Trees, a major exhibition dedicated to trees, exceptional beings with unsuspected faculties, yet largely threatened nowadays. Organized around several large ensembles of works—drawings, paintings, films, photographs, installations—the exhibition gave voice to numerous figures who, through their aesthetic or scientific journey, have developed a strong, intimate link with trees. On this occasion, the Fondation Cartier published a catalog including the works presented in the exhibition as well as several essays from biologists, philosophers, mathematicians, botanists, and climatologists. Within this book, Stefano Mancuso, the founder of plant neurobiology, explores the unknown abilities of the plant world and the concept of “plant intelligence.”

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Editor Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Languages French and English versions
Format

Paperback, 17 × 10.5 cm, 52 pages
non-illustrated

Design Nolwen Lauzanne
ISBN 9782869252097
Release October 2025

Stefano Mancuso

Italian biologist, professor at the University of Florence, and member of the Accademia dei Georgofili (a Florentine institution promoting the study of agronomy, forestry, economics, and agrarian geography), Stefano Mancuso studies plant behavior. At the International Laboratory for Plant Neurobiology, which he founded in 2005, he has conduct-ed extensive research on plant sensitivity and on communication in the plant world. He is the author of several scientific books and hundreds of publications in international journals. In 2013, in collaboration with journalist Alessandra Viola, he published the results of his research in a book entitled Verde brillante. Sensibilità e intelligenza del mondo vegetale (Milan: Giunti), published in English in 2015 as Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence (Washington: Island Press). Afterward, he published The Revolutionary Genius of Plants (New York: Atria Books, 2017), The Incredi­ble Journey of Plants (New York: Other Press, 2020), The Nation of Plants (London: Profile Books, 2021). In 2025, Stefano Mancuso participated in the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. He presented the exhibition Building Biospheres in collaboration with landscape architect Bas Smets and climatologist Valérie Trouet, which proposed a transformative approach to architecture through the lens of plant intelligence.

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