call for participation Spring gathering April 8-10, 2026
call for participation Spring gathering April 8-10, 2026
with these bi-annual gatherings, we join a growing movement of scholars and practitioners engaged in what call be called a multispecies turn: a shift toward less human-centric ways of thinking and working across disciplines. These events invite members of the collective and external partners to share their work as part of a joint reflection on the entanglements between human and more-than-human worlds, and to explore what these relationships can transform in the face of the climate crisis.
SPRING GATHERING: ideas festival
UPCOMING SPRING 2026 (April 8-10, 2026)
The multispecies lab Spring ideas festival GATHERING (April 8–10, 2026) continues the mission of the multispecies lab in seeking for less human-centric ways of engaging in our professions, practices, and institutions, asking: what kinds of practices, institutions, and narratives become possible when we expand our imagination beyond the human?
We are particularly interested in student voices, as well as faculty and staff at The New School and external to TNS, to share research, creative work, and experiments-in-progress as part of the festival’s programming.
FALL GATHERING: show and tell
as a way of reflecting on the research and discussing the goals of the collective we join in a “show and tell” style gathering: a platform for exchanging tools, methods, and ideas that respond to urgent ecological challenges from a multispecies perspective. This initiative approaches these questions through an interdisciplinary lens, exploring design as a critical medium for envisioning futures that are not only sustainable but regenerative and inclusive of all forms of life.
This will be an internal New School cross-school gathering to collect, disseminate and support projects that tackle pressing social and ecological issues by embracing the rights of human and more-than-human life.
In a time of ecological and social emergencies we need to shift frameworks away from more human exceptionalism, that is serving humans with individual and collective malaise. We ask what type of institutions and narratives might become imaginable if we push the boundaries of our imagination to include the breathing Earth?