Multi Species Worlding – Imagination & Design for Thriving Futures

ON: 30.10.2024 WHO : Sympoiesis

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What can humans learn from other species? What does it mean to work with and alongside them to co-create thriving futures?

Sympoiesis developed an immersive imagination practice that supports participants in deeply connecting with another species and learn how they perceive, sense, feel, and shape their worlds. Through a guided, sound-assisted visualization and group conversations, participants practice more-than-human empathy and futures thinking. Combining this ecosystem of perspectives, the group will co-create an emergent story of a regenerative future — and find their unique role in making it real.

Over 150 people joined past workshops — ranging from designers, storytellers, educators to entrepreneurs, architects, communicators, and policy makers, dedicated to bringing the voices of the living world into their work and design practices. A smaller version of our workshop has been included in Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s new Collective Imagination Toolkit.

This time, Sympoiesis joins forces with Atelier Gardens: the former 6-acre film campus overlooking Tempelhofer Feld, now transformed into a creative space for change makers, working to regenerate life in the city.

“The workshop has sparked new ideas and creative insights on how to incorporate multi-species understanding in my work as a way to enhance people’s connection with the natural world.” — Anne P.

“My species’ imagination stays with me all the time. A connection with a being that opened my mind and heart to the world.” — Dorothe L.

Why Join?

Multi Species Worlding workshop is created with the intention to:

Connect participants more deeply to themselves and the more-than-human world;
Perceive, think, and design relationally and systemically, for the well-being of all lifeforms;
Help each other see the world not as singular and static, but as always alive and always transforming. We want to inspire a heightened ability to imagine alternative futures and shape one’s unique contribution to such futures. Participants feel more confident in their ability to devise strategies to realize them;
Network with individuals who align with your purpose.

Practical Details

Tickets’ Support

Thanks to the generous support of the Collective Imagination Practice Fund, we are now able to offer reduced tickets to participants and scholarships to those who would not be able to join us otherwise. Write us an email at niels(at)devisscher@gmail.com

Are you unable to attend this workshop? We are offering an ONLINE version of this workshop for our global audience, on November 12. Register here!

About the Facilitators

Rūta Žemčugovaitė is a co-founder of Sympoiesis and Regenerative Research Lead.

Rūta is a freelance writer, facilitator, and multi-disciplinary artist, based in Berlin. She explores regenerative design practices and works with systems change facilitation through the lens of more-than-human perspectives. She has a background in psychology and has trained in trauma facilitation.

Niels Devisscher is the co-founder of Sympoiesis and Communications Lead. He works as a freelance communications designer, writer, and imagination facilitator. He is a visual artist and award-winning landscape photographer.

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