Earlier this year, Kew Gardens invited 1 0 0 9 to conceive of and design ‘Rare & Extinct’, an exhibition and attendant body of research dedicated to generating conversations about botanical rarity in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. Two “Octagons” in Kew’s Temperate House were converted—one into a “Room of Rarity”, the other into a “Room of Extinction”. Each celebrates and foregrounds those plants either on the brink of extinction, or which are extinct in the wild. These specimens are not usually found on display, instead they reside behind the scenes, within Kew’s Tropical Nursery.