pollen project *

In growth since summer 2022.

View fullsize Thanks to Tolmeia Gregory and Jake Randall for taking the time to respond to our questions about their podcast, 'Lights, Climate, Action'. Head to the pollen website to read the full interview 🎥
View fullsize 🪺 Follow the direction on the final slide to read the 2nd installment of Håkon Evjemo's 'Rethinking Legal Personality' series. This is a clear, imaginative guide through complex ideas and a great introduction to the concepts of individual and
View fullsize 🪩 New pollen article online now, initially inspired by reading PARTY LINES by Ed Gillett, based on a recorded conversation with Jed Dutton and articles by @resident_advisor @theskinnymag @c0smicsl0p @leeds.independentlife and @tsotarts 🪩
View fullsize Håkon Evjemo is a PhD student at the University of Dundee. We feel lucky to share his imaginative and practically-minded article as a part of the pollen project. Through a set of playful arguments, Håkon invites us to ponder the inter
View fullsize Proud to share the latest pollen article, by @george_hill02 . Swipe for a first taste and follow the route on the final slide to read in full. 🏔️🦌👣
View fullsize pollen is back! Following a period of hibernation from public action, the project is returning with a new, more fitting, website and a much sharper understanding of why we exist. Reimagining pollen's look, and feel, has been a labour of love - much
View fullsize Growing something new! Excited to share more over the months to come... 🌀🎨💚
View fullsize Sharing a new piece of writing, 'Finding new shapes'. Adding to a collection of pollen blogs. I'll add a snippet below and put a link in the page bio. "There is style in the way we sidestep puddles, or walk through them, in the lines we'd dr
View fullsize Photos from forests because 1) I miss them dearly 2) world forest day slipped by last week and 3) Britain's rainforests have been getting a little more attention than usual lately Too often the first time we really stop and think about their mean
View fullsize Working away at something new to be shared soon... Hence recent quietness here. I have loved playing with possibilities through the Pollen Project and look forward to what's to come. Here's some recent prettiness: some food and dancing, people an
View fullsize One part of a hugely useful Twitter thread. Certainly worth a look for an informative, damning, practical look at the state of play. #climatechange #climatesolutions #rightsofnature #ecocide #stopecocide
View fullsize A flower from one day and the beginnings of a poem from another
View fullsize a throwback to summertime and the pollen project's first real-world outing @lotusnovafest Here's a collection of photos not shared at the time: - the pollen table, where we spoke to beautiful festival goers about all things nature, the inherent r

pollen is a storytelling initiative. Our hope is to find and nurture more creative ways to understand and respond to climate breakdown, and other tangled matters. Since its emergence, pollen has been,

  • Collecting artwork based on nature-connectedness.

  • Sharing articles reflecting on events and ideas.

  • Curating a time-capsule of articles and interviews.

  • Grappling with the thought of loving broken places.

Despite being unfunded, the project continues to grow through conversations and connections with others who feel drawn to it. In the future, we hope to organise actions in spontaneous, nimble ways, adapting to available resources and collaborating with others. The dream is to offer any contributors fair compensation.

Whilst pollen maintains an online presence, we try to keep the internet as an archive and a conduit for offline actions. We hope to leave those who interact with ideas to ponder in their own time and would love for pollen to become a part of more lives in the coming years.

pollinate with us?

Get in touch if you have an idea or would like to play a part in pollen as it develops. 

* We write ‘pollen project’ without capital letters to make it feel like an embedded part of sentences, and (in time) conversations. Whilst we know this is a small detail, and easily missed, it says something meaningful about how we work now and envision project in the future.