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Form Follows Life: Reinventing cities. Non Architecture publishing

The aim of this report is to present and discuss the results of the Non Architecture Competition: “Form Follows Life: Reinventing Cities”. Following Non Architecture’s engagement with the potentialities, and urgencies, surrounding cities and “nature” over the last few years, we came together to curate a competition that sought to challenge as much as possible current paradigms shaping ideas about what is “urban...

Exploring desired urban futures: the transformative potential of a nature-based...

Amidst multiple crises and calls for transformative change, the demand to reassess human-nature relationships has increased. Rethinking the future of cities is vital in this process, yet positive urban visions prioritizing nature beyond human-centred perspectives are lacking. To address this gap, we propose a “nature-based desired futures” approach for envisaging and building collective discussion around transf...

Supporting Nature-Based Solutions via Nature-Based Thinking across European and...

Nature-Based Solutions concepts and practices are being used worldwide as part of attempts to address societal challenges but have also been criticised for not dealing with deeper transformations needed to face urgent issues including biodiversity loss, climate change and inclusion. In this paper, we explore how an inclusive, integrated and long-sighted approach, emphasising a more radical integration of nature...

Towards a ‘Life-turn’ in Education: a Thought Experiment

This article explores the need for transformative change in higher education institutions (HEIs) to help address the complexity and existential risk resulting from multiple interconnected crises. First, it acknowledges that the rate and direction of change in HEIs have been inadequate and that, despite well-rehearsed obstacles and enablers, much more needs to be done to ensure HEIs can deliver human security. I...

Guidance for Nature Futures Workshops. Working Document for the EU funded proje...

Environmental ethics: philosophy, ecology and other species

This chapter focuses on the dominant Western frames while acknowledging a welcome rise of alternative voices – often captured by the expression of “indigenous and local knowledge” – which will hopefully enrich the depth and breadth of our pathways into the future. Environmental ethics and its internal debates and tensions can provide precious insights to global environmental politics. The ethical conversation w...

Who is doing inter- and transdisciplinary research, and why? An empirical study...

We witness a persistent tension between established ways of knowledge production through disciplines, and the urgent need to widen and change, both the production of knowledge and its organization, not least, in order to be able to understand and address the future and its challenges. Witnessing a growing call for inter- and transdisciplinarity (ITD), we set our goal to learn more about scholars who engage in t...

Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research: finding the common ground of ...

Inter- and transdisciplinarity are increasingly relevant concepts and research practices within academia. Although there is a consensus about the need to apply these practices, there is no agreement over definitions. Building on the outcomes of the first year of the COST Action TD1408 “Interdisciplinarity in research programming and funding cycles” (INTREPID), this paper describes the similarities and differenc...

Possible Beyond Plausible: Reimagining Ourselves and Our Cities

We are said to be living in a time of multiple failures and crises (climate, biodiversity, health, inequality – to name a few now in the headlines) all playing out within a fast changing world. Behind the grand narratives of planetary boundaries and Anthropocene, is a world of increasing injustice and inequitable relationships – between humans and between humans and more-than human life. If our dominant systems...

Inner transformation to sustainability as a deep leverage point: fostering new ...

This article provides a rationale for inner transformation as a key and hitherto underresearched dimension of sustainability transformations. Inner transformation relates to various aspects of human existence and interactions such as consciousness, mindsets, values, worldviews, beliefs, spirituality and human–nature connectedness. The article draws on Meadows’ leverage points approach, as places to intervene in...