Faidon Papadakis

Faidon’s research interests include post-humanist theory, environmental anthropology, multi-species ethnography and the social production of space and place. Their ongoing research explores multi-species sociality in thought and practice, drawing from scholarship of academic and folk traditions of ecological thought and investigating multi-species relationships fostered in urban gardens.

Faidon’s current practice-led research project is a balcony-garden in which they, as a researcher-gardener, become acquainted with common edible plants without having produce as a goal, observing them throughout their life cycles instead of uprooting them when they reach a non-edible stage. With a phenomenological focus on the sensory world that allows different parts of a multi-species assemblage to relate beyond words, light, humidity, temperature, smell, and sound become mediums for everyday trans-species communication. Sowing seeds, watering, pruning, composting kitchen waste, tending to and spending time with the non-human cohabitants of the balcony become a point of departure for reflections on multi-species sociality and a post-humanist ecological theory.

Faidon Papadakis was born in 1995 and is an Αthens based researcher and gardener. They completed an undergraduate degree in Ecology at the University of York in 2016 and an MSc in Anthropology, Environment and Development at University College London (UCL) in 2018.