Alteridades Vegetais (Vegetable Otherness) was an academic event of the FFLCH–USP Anthropology Department that occurred in November 2022. It was a space for sharing research and practices related to plant interactions from interdisciplinary approaches less centered on humanity as a primary figure.
The eventʼs interdisciplinarity covered the areas of anthropology, archeology, botany, ecology, architecture, design and other fields of knowledge related to the urgent discussions about the environmental and climate crisis in the world.
Plant interactions — which are based on the diversity of relationships between humans, plants and other non-human beings — inspired the graphic design conceived for the event.
The four thematic axes of Alteridades Vegetais are 1 Care and cultivation; 2 Counter-domestication and other resistances; 3 Weeds and urban monocultures; 4 Cultivated soils, subsoils and roots. The design process put these axes in perspective to identify plant and non-plant beings that inspired the vegetable-letter illustrations that, combined with a joyful font, formed a lively and expressive visual identity for the event.