Multispecies Care Survey
by Christopher Kennedy, co-created by Environmental Performance Agency
about:
The Multispecies Care Survey is a public engagement and data gathering initiative to provoke and articulate forms of environmental agency that de-center human supremacy and facilitate the co-generation of embodied, localized plant-human care practices. https://www.multispecies.care/
The Multispecies Care Survey is part of the EPA’s continued work in response to the dismantling of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the 2016-2020 presidential administration, which has been guided by the question: In a time of mass extinction, how can we make space for more life? The survey will gather public input through two formats: (1) a collection of protocols the public can engage with to observe aspects of multispecies life from a participant’s window, balcony or backyard, and (2) a digital platform (www.multispecies.care) to survey a range of approaches to multispecies care within the public imaginary. The protocols will integrate a need for social distancing while also encouraging new discoveries, connections and understanding of diverse nonhuman life along the margins.