The interdisciplinary 4A_Lab Academy “Ecological Entanglements across Collections – Plant Lives and Beyond” took place in Berlin from 4–8 November 2024 in collaboration with the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK). The academy built on the ecocritical turn in the humanities and explored the role of plant life in artistic and aesthetic practices, human knowledge production, and theoretical critical thinking across histories, communities, and geographies. Through a series of panels, lectures, workshops, collection visits, and performances at 7 locations and in 8 formats, the academy invited participants to collectively (re)think human entanglements with vegetal and non-human life, in dialogue with the collections of the SPK.