Join our member Renilde Becqué (The Repatterning Collective) for a series of online learning sessions of the Co-creation with the More-than-Human sandbox:
The Co-creation with the More-than-Human sandbox is a space for exploring what it means to engage with, represent, and co-create with the more-than-human world, co-hosted by The Repatterning Collective and Kincentric Leadership. It shines a light on the rapidly growing field of approaches and methods to engage, represent, and involve the more-than-human.
The sandbox starts from a simple but consequential premise: because our economy is nested within the natural environment, rethinking it is not a question we can answer for humans alone. That means we need to genuinely understand what co-creation with the more-than-human asks of us – what it looks like in practice, how far different approaches have come, and what conditions would allow them to go further.
The sandbox is a living and growing inquiry. What you find below is one part of it: the expanding body of knowledge that form the written syntheses of our first 12 online Learning Sessions which we’ve been running since March 2025. The sessions are held roughly once a month (apart from August and January) and in each session (1hr) we explore the workings, possibilities, challenges & limitations, future directions, and emerging insights of different approaches and praxes.
In addition, we now also provide Field Dialogues, which are ~30-60 minute audio tracks & a written synthesis, acting as snapshots across a broader field, surfacing stories, practices, and insights in the evolving work of engaging the more-than-human. Last but not least, we recently published the first Reframe, providing a working lens on bespoke aspects of the landscape and state of play of this emerging and evolving field.
You can explore the syntheses of the first 12 learning sessions here:
Learning Session 1 – Rights of Nature & Earth Law Introduces the growing global movement to recognise nature as a legal subject with rights, reshaping governance and accountability.
Learning Session 2 – More-than-Human Design in Practice Explores how designers are practically integrating ecosystems and non-human stakeholders into real-world design processes.
Learning Session 3 – Interspecies Councils Looks at the increasingly adopted practice of Interspecies Councils, where humans formally represent non-human voices in decision-making.
Learning Session 4 – Cuerpo Enjambre (Body Swarm) Shares an embodied and speculative interspecies activation program from Colombia, which draws inspiration from the collective intelligence of bees.
Learning Session 5 – I.N.S.E.C.T. Summercamp: Resonating Worlds Examines experimental, cross-disciplinary practices (art, science, technology) to let humans relate differently to insect worlds.
Learning Session 6 – Kincentric Leadership Toolkit Explores the practicalities of developing and applying a toolkit for leadership grounded in kinship with the living world, in real life settings.
Learning Session 7 – Knowing Place, a Key to Survival Engages specifically with Hopi place-based knowledge as an inter-generational foundation for shaping both practice and decision-making.
Learning Session 8 – Nature on the Board Highlights the rapidly emerging practice of giving nature a formal seat in corporate governance, including board-level representation.
Learning Session 9 – What Whales Are Saying Explores efforts to use AI to decode whale communication, alongside the ethical questions of engaging artificial intelligence in such relationships.
Learning Session 10 – Remember You Are Wild Examines the power of emotional ecology – such as through film (e.g. My Octopus Teacher) – to shift and deepen human-nature relationships.
Learning Session 11 – Biomimicry – Learning from Nature Explores biomimicry as both a philosophical orientation and an applied practice for learning from and with living systems.
Learning Session 12 – Beyond Nature-Based Solutions Questions the limitations of treating nature as a provider of services and solutions, and considers what changes when we shift towards relationships of reciprocity, participation, and co-creation with the living world.
For our initial 3 Field Dialogues (with more on the way), click on the links to access the audio recordings & accompanying synthesis:
Field Dialogue 1 – Listening for What Is Already Speaking A conversation with Joanna Crowson (Casa Gaia) on listening with place, and how attention itself can become a relational practice.
Field Dialogue 2 – A Nourishing Toolkit to the More-Than-Human A dialogue with Ariel Sim on the upcoming book A Nourishing Toolkit to the More-Than-Human: 22 Ways to Design Differently, exploring a suite of design approaches grounded in reciprocity, interdependence, and living systems.
Field Dialogue 3 – Talking Salmon An exploration of the “Talking Salmon” project with Torsten Schäfer, and its efforts to reimagine journalism through the journeys and lifeworlds of salmon – connecting rivers, oceans, species, and communities.