spring gathering | ideas festival
april 8, 9, 10, 2026
april 8, 9, 10, 2026
spring ideas festival program
Day 1 | Wednesday April 8th
Attuning to Multispecies Worlds
9:30–11:30 am
Opening Panel
Multispecies Ontologies and Rights
Location: Hirshon
Vegetable Rights and Other Preposterous Thoughts
Christoph Cox
Executive Dean, Eugene Lang College
and
Law for a More-Than-Human World
Jacqueline Gallant;
Director of Programs, More-than-Human Life (MOTH) Program NYU
12:00-1:30
Tree Social
Location: Vera List Courtyard
Day 2 | Thursday April 9th
Methods for Multispecies Research
This day brings together artists, designers, and researchers exploring multispecies relations through film, design, and ecological practices
9:00–10:30
Zoom Session
Designing with Multispecies Worlds
This gathering brings together students, collaborators, and more-than-human worlds to explore what it means to learn, create, and coexist otherwise
Day 3 | Friday April 10th
Living in Multispecies Futures
This gathering brings together students, collaborators, and more-than-human worlds to explore what it means to learn, create, and coexist otherwise
Overview
day 01 / april 8th
student-centered talks and workshops
Student-centered talks and workshops foregrounding emerging research, creative practice, and multispecies experimentation.
day 02 / april 9th
online zoom sessions
Online Zoom sessions connecting a distributed community through talks, discussions, and virtual workshops
day 03 / april 10th
performances and happenings
Performances and multispecies happenings exploring embodied, site-responsive, and collective practices of reciprocity with multispecies life
more details
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