Current Activity:

Compost Cultures, an intergenerational community co-design project exploring food waste, composting and climate action (with Compost Collective, LABTwnty4 and London Borough of Waltham Forest)

Ecotechnic-Metabolics, exploring obsolete technology as infrastructures of care for urban roof garden ecosystems (with Central Saint Martins)

Recent Exhibitions:

Mind + Matter: Towards Co-Creation, Art & Design Gallery, University of Hertfordshire (2025)

Organic Circuits, LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland (2024)

Recent Publications:

Barnett, H. ‘Caught in the Act of Looking’, in Karelse, T. and Smits, A. (eds), A Field Guide to Machine Wilderness (2023) pp 28-39 and 64-69. FoAM.

Barnett, H. (2023) ‘Drawing Out the Superorganism: Artistic Intervention and the Amplification of Processes of Life’, in G. Anderson-Tempini and J. Dupré (eds) Drawing Processes of Life: molecules, cells, organisms. Intellect Books, pp. 193–218.

Barnett, H. (2022) ‘The Physarum Experiments’, Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Microbial Ecologies(59), pp. 223–233.