Mikhail Lylov is an artist, researcher, and gardener. In his work, he develops practical, theoretical, and artistic interpretations of what ecology could mean if one looks beyond computational or system paradigms. Stories, histories, travels, and pathways of plants, animals, and tools are at the focus of Mikhail’s research, which exposes and narrates how material relationships of things and bodies in movement interact with social relationships in their becoming. Mikhail studied gardening and engaged with the topics of landscape ecology while working in Japan. For a number of years, he has been collaborating on an experimental gardening and orchard project in the Madonie Mountains of Sicily. Currently, Mikhail collaborates with the Spore Initiative Berlin on a long-term learning garden project.
