Agential Placemaking: Relating Material and Place through More-than-Human Agencies What does it mean to consider place as a constituency of matter? Do place and matter co-constitute each other, and if so, how might place be represented through an extension of … read more
Giga: Hi, Moniek. It feels meaningful that at a certain moment, we were both connected to HDK-Valand. You were completing your PhD and your beautiful book, Leaving Dry Land: Water, Heritage and Imaginary Agency, right around the same moment I … read more
How can research take shape as stories that matter, that can be felt, sensed and performed? Who and what can be(come) storytellers in our research? How do we grasp our own implicatedness in the topics we are researching, while addressing … read more
The give and take of living with others The summercamp takes place at a scout camp in Hvalsø, Denmark, surrounded by the Bidstrup Forest. Here, we connect with the local ecosystem and its companion species, grounding our explorations in place-specific … read more
Rethinking data and data practices through Pheno-data (ontology) and Pheno-fication (epistemology) for a good planetary life In the session, Youngsil Lee will introduce an ecological data practice grounded in knowing ecological data (embodied, relational and situated), being in more-than-human entanglements (social, technological, and natural), and … read more
Tidal Time – A participatory drawing method on multispecies time, field sketching, and posthuman thinking. This method has been developed by Katerina Inglezaki based on her work on multispecies ethnography and cartography. Agenda (~90 min) In this workshop, Katerina Inglezaki introduces tidalectic … read more
We live on a mountain, at the end of the road, out of the way but in the middle of it all. The top of the mountain consists of olive groves, vineyards, a botanical garden with fruit trees, vegetable gardens, … read more
(Re)present-ing erased More-than-Human bodies through affective methodology 24 February, 16:00 CET Agenda (~90 min) The presenters: Dr Moniek Driesse works at the intersection of research-creation, critical heritage, and environmental justice, and is currently based at University of Antwerp’s Cultural Heritage … read more
In 2023, five of us—design practitioners, architects, farmers and educators—came together to conceive and design a new master’s programme titled Social Ecological Design: Regenerative Practices for Everyday Life for IED Torino. From the outset, the programme was guided by a simple … read more
More-than-Human Tools & Methods Workshop Sessions 2026 (will be updated regularly) More-than-Human Tools & Methods is a workshop session series exploring how designers, researchers, and practitioners can engage with more-than-human worlds through concrete tools, methods and practices. The aim of … read more