As a response to an increasing urgency in redefining what it is to be human on a multispecies planet, the School for Multispecies Knowledges attempts to create an alternative (un)learning environment to explore what kind of practices and knowledges emerging from these posthumanist and post-anthropocentric discourses. This initiative brings together local enthusiasts, caretakers and experts, activists, makers, thinkers, scholars and everybody who wants to learn how to live together as earthlings to explore methods of tuning into the multiple scales and imageries of emerging multispecies complexities of urban life. The project aims to problematize the binary human-nonhuman and nature-culture relations and examine the complexities of relations between agencies in the city when we consider a city with billions of lives instead of only millions of humans. 

The School's edition March-June 2022 is the pilot that will lead to a multi-annual programme allowing us to build up each year on the developed knowledge, networks and methodologies. 

This collaboration between Zone2Source and myself resulted from a shared concern that we need to move beyond the incidental workshop or lecture, which merely thematizes interdependent relations to other species. We wish to move beyond the theoretical debate and collaboratively with participants to propose and test out methodologies and public formats of engagement in the theme. In this way, we aim to practically explore what all this new ecological thinking is actually producing? This engagement means transforming human-centred habits of acting and deepening our sensibilities towards the 'other'? What does it mean to acknowledge the multispecies co-inhabitance of the city? How can we practice and create better conditions for multispecies cultures and communities: to which settings, collaborative processes, environments, and methods this inclusive ecologies lead us? What tools, vocabularies, and literacies do we need to enable 'complex' cities?