Since March 2025, the Co-creation with the More-than-Human sandbox - a space for exploring what it means to engage with, represent, and co-create with the more-than-human world - has been running a series of learning session.
So far, we’ve been exploring the workings & (im)possibilities of approaches and praxis ranging from Rights of Nature and biomimicry to Interspecies Councils; from emotional ecology to AI for decoding whale communication; and from embodied interspecies practices to Indigenous place-based knowledge; as well as novel governance concepts such as Nature on the Board.
As we continue this work, an expanding body of knowledge has started to emerge, which is why we have started publishing concise syntheses of each learning session to trace these insights more clearly.
Readers can now explore the syntheses of insights of the first 11 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.
The learning sessions are part of the Co-creation with the More-than-Human sandbox. They're are aimed at practitioners, exploring a different approach or praxis through dialogue each month, and are run as a collaboration between The Repatterning Collective and Kincentric Leadership.
To receive announcements of upcoming online learning sessions, just register for the sandbox's mailing list via this link.
