Lab
The Multispecies Lab is an interdisciplinary collective at The New School that brings together designers, scholars, and thinkers across fields including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, architecture, and design. It convenes a growing community committed to reimagining how humans relate to the more-than-human world. Through multivoiced collaboration, the Lab creates a space for experimentation, dialogue, and creative refuge in response to accelerating ecological crises, including extinction, habitat loss, pollution, and climate change, all intensified by dominant extractive paradigms that privilege human exceptionalism. At the core of this work is a recognition that human life is inseparable from the broader web of nonhuman life, and that dominant human exceptionalist frameworks have contributed to ecological breakdown and obscured possibilities for more reciprocal relationships with the living world. The Multispecies Lab asks what new narratives, design practices, and institutions might emerge if we expand our imagination to include the Earth as a living system grounded in relationships of reciprocity. Through biannual gatherings, including a fall ShowAndTell and a spring Ideas Festival, along with its digital platform (www.multispecieslab.net), the Lab connects participants across disciplines and institutions to share research, tools, creative practices, and scholarship. Aligned with the global multispecies turn, the Lab advances more than human design and scholarship, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and cultivating conditions for multispecies flourishing and regenerative futures. To learn more, visit www.multispecieslab.net