Project
Writing as Morphogenesis: Plant Forms and Creative Processes in Italo Calvino’s Work
Inspired by the question of whether a writer can write “the way a pumpkin plant makes pumpkins”, this project explores – through a transdisciplinary perspective spanning plant biology, aesthetics, and literature – how plant morphogenesis can in-form literary creative processes in Italo Calvino’s work (vocabulary, syntax, textual structure, poetics). The aim of the research is to examine writing as a creative process that is (also) organic, one that humans share with other living forms.
Bio
With a background in contemporary literature and art history, and a PhD on Italo Calvino’s writings on visual art (art semiotics, visual studies, transmediality), Greta Gribaudo is currently studying plant morphogenesis and creative processes in Calvino’s work in the context of a postdoctoral fellowship at InCIAM (AMU).
