fall gathering 2025

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show and tell

fall gathering | October 21, 2025

the multispecies lab’s “show & tell” brought together the collective of professors whose work explores care, ecology, and design beyond the human.

from birds and animals to fungi and slime molds, the gathering opened space to share projects, methods, and ideas that connect creative practice with the more-than-human world.

through conversation and collaboration, we’re strengthening our community and exploring how multispecies design can extend care across all forms of life.

featured speakers

we are proud to present the collective voices and visions of our collaborators who are designing with not just for — a more‑than‑human world.

from architecture and media to speculative design and ecological imagination, these thinkers and makers shared their project foci within the multispecies / more‑than‑human frame.

together, they form the lab’s constellation of curious makers and thinkers who showed us what a multispecies future might feel like urgent, expansive, generative.

Dominic Pettman -A Polyspecies Mutticule of Monographs

Fiona Raby - Designs for a World of Many Worlds

Eva Perez de Vega - Avian extinctions & Multispecies Totems

Christine Facella - Warm Fuzzy Toxic

Oliver Kellhammer - Slime Mold Subjectivity

Andrea Macruz- Designing for Multispecies

Dana Burton - Intensities & Intimacies of Multispecies Space-times

Gokhan Kodalak - Architecture As Cosmic Art

Laura Nova - Facing Nature

Columba González-Duarte - Multispecies Mobilities and the Limits of Justice

featured collective members and research directions

Slimemold Subjectivity

Multispecies Design

Multispecies Totem

Facing Nature

Warm, Fuzzy, Toxic

ARCHITECTURE AS COSMIC ART

Intensities & Intimacies of Multispecies Space-Times

Bioinfrastructures for mobility justice

show and tell gallery

through conversation and collaboration, we’re strengthening our community and exploring how multispecies design can extend care across all forms of life

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