Ground ESG and wellbeing in one team piece that is still growing every day.
Participants build their own terrarium from living moss and plants, or combine their work into a single office green wall. Materials are chosen for sustainability, and the result extends naturally into ESG and staff wellbeing narratives.
WORKSHOP RECORD
A living plant installation that keeps growing, supplied with written activity descriptions you can quote directly in an ESG report.
IN THE ROOM
Reference images of the format and what participants take home.
Introduction to the plants and mosses
Building the substrate layers
Individual landscaping
Care briefing and team photo
ORIGINS
The garden under glass began with an accident. In 1829 the London doctor Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward sealed a moth cocoon into a glass bottle with a little damp soil to watch it hatch, and found a fern growing instead — surviving for years with no watering at all. Moisture given off by the plant condensed on the glass and ran back into the soil, a closed humidity loop we now call a terrarium.
The discovery changed how plants crossed oceans. The nurseryman Loddiges had been losing nineteen of every twenty plants he imported by sea; inside what became known as Wardian cases, nineteen of twenty survived instead. In 1848 the botanist Robert Fortune used them to move more than twenty thousand tea plants from China to India. A sealed glass container looks like an ornament. It once redrew the world's crop map.
MOSS × SOIL × SLOW CARE
From gravel to soil to moss, participants build the terrarium layer by layer — understanding its structure, and taking home something they will keep caring for.
FOR YOUR INTERNAL PROPOSAL
For organisations that want sustainability to move from statement to participation, and to leave a living fixture behind in the workspace.
VENUE NOTES
One table and chairs per four participants, a sink nearby for clean-up, and somewhere with indirect daylight to keep the finished pieces. No power needed.
COMMON QUESTIONS
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