ACTIVITIES
Playfulness is a powerful means of inviting new forms of curiosity, interaction, care and storytelling. We have prepared a variety of activities which serve as prompts to inspire and provoke new ways of thinking about our shared environment, to stimulate curiosity and awe, and to attend to often ignored forms of shared life.
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Check out our prompts, make house bestiaries, write letters to plants, compose audio portraits of your worlds!
If spotted would you sweep, clean, vacuum, pull-out, weed-out, fumigate, trap or otherwise eradicate from your home?
If spotted would you sweep, clean, vacuum, pull-out, weed-out, fumigate, trap or otherwise eradicate from your home?
If spotted would you sweep, clean, vacuum, pull-out, weed-out, fumigate, trap or otherwise eradicate from your home?
Walk around your house paying special attention to corners, edges and dark nookes.
You can download inaturalist and Picture This apps on your cellphone to find out a bit more about what kind of beasts these intruders are.
You can download inaturalist and Picture This apps on your cellphone to find out a bit more about what kind of beasts these intruders are.
Watch for patterns.
How do these creatures dwell and live in your home?
How do these beast share their dens with other creatures?
What do they need to live? Do you need them?
The more detail you’re able to capture, the better—we often don’t know what is most interesting or important about an observation until much later. Recording, in any format, is always a way of paying attention and of giving oneself to the possibility that these beasts are worth thinking about.
adjective
favorably receptive or open (usually followed by to)
characterized by or betokening warmth and generosity toward guests or strangers.
Has your home become a space where
you dwell with numerous beasts?
Is it made up of homes within homes?
Have you made a friend or two?
Have you, per chance, become a beast?
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You can upload your notes, drawings, audio, pictures, and videos
Share your experience
Tell others about your homes and its inhabitants
Be as playful and creative as you want, this is your story and your shared home.
A bestiary, after all, is an opening into other kinds of worlds that begins by attending to the incredible interactions unfolding all around us, often entirely unnoticed. A bestiary is a collection of beings noticed and given to wonder.
Download the House Bestiary activity as a PDF English/Español
Some plants are historical landmarks defining the landscape of our cities
Some are important parts of our everyday lives and spaces
Some plants we ignore as they silently share our spaces, ignored, scorned, or loved in their own ways.
Some plants we care for
Some plants nourish us
Pay attention to the plants with which you share your lives and worlds.
Find out their names
Their stories
Download the inaturalist,
picture this or google lense
on your phones
Their habits
Their habits
Their likes and dislikes
You may include portraits you have made and drawings
Photographs
And if you prefer a handwritten note, you can upload these as well.
Access www.untoldstories.site and choose add new post
Register so you can add a new post
On this page you can include your portraits, hotographs, handwritten notes, and any other material you may want to send your plant.
1. Scroll down to find the map.
2. Search for the plant’s address.
*You can also drag the pin to the correct location on the map
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3. Once you have found the plant’s address set the coordinates by choosing the Get PinPoint button.
Press the Submit for Review button and your letter will be sent off to the Untoldstories postal service.
We will let you know when your letter has been received!
Download the Letters to plants activity as a PDF English / Español
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