Date : Sep 28, 2025

Time : 12:00 - 14:00 PM

Abstract
Where do we draw the boundaries of the human? And those of the individual? Of the collective? How do we construct the “we” to which we feel we belong: who is allowed to enter, and who decides who is excluded?

In these choices lies the possibility of a sustainable future: in deciding who can be protected and who is deemed expendable, and in imagining what forms—human and non-human—the future may take. Through dialogue among artists and researchers, curators, activists, designers, anthropologists, and agronomists, this roundtable seeks to explore how non-human perspectives can be heard, co-designed, and included within an intrinsically sustainable “we.” What alliances can be built among people, places, environments, and other living entities? What role can art and culture play in shaping the evolutionary symbiosis between institutions and multispecies communities?

The selected participants bring together a wide range of geographies, practices, and forms of knowledge—from theoretical research to applied design, from territorial activation to artistic experimentation—with a shared focus on the communal and relational dimensions of human and more-than-human sustainability. Their trajectories compose a plural landscape where engaging with the territory becomes a form of artistic and poetic imagination, while artistic, curatorial, or research practices become practical tools for building pathways in the world.

Starting from the emergency condition we live in—where long-term strategies no longer seem viable—could the development of more-than-human tactics and alliances guide us toward a habitable world? By crossing the realms of the living without hierarchies, this roundtable seeks to consider margins and residues, vulnerabilities and co-existences, as generative places for new forms of care, alliance, and transformation.

Main questions for discussion

1. We live in an emergency on many fronts, with the climate crisis confronting us most directly with questions of sustainability and our relationship to the non-human, often leading to a sense of paralysis. If long-term strategies are no longer available, what tactics or alliances can we imagine and adopt, as individuals and as institutions?
2. As cultural workers, however much our practices may gesture toward a political horizon, our first level of impact lies in the realm of imagination, narrative, and culture. To what extent does this work shape our relationship with the non-human and that of the audiences we engage with? How does it help redefine the boundary of who—and what—we consider expendable?
3. Do the practices we develop—whether artistic, curatorial, or research-based—have the power to transform the spaces in which they are situated, at either the institutional or individual level? In what ways do they generate concrete forms of multispecies relation and care?