ANIMATE SPACEMAKING
Rather than seeing materials and buildings as lifeless, inanimate resources, Animate Spacemaking recognises them as living entities. This shift encourages designers and makers to co-create spaces that honour the consciousness of materials, natural systems, and the Earth, fostering harmony with all beings—both human and non-human.
This way of seeing the world holds the potential to inspire radical change, rendering many existing practices which are common to spatial production deeply immoral and unethical. If a tree is conscious, how can you negotiate cutting it down for a dwelling? If landscapes are alive, should you first ask if you can build there? What practices must we develop to ensure creative reciprocity? How might we co-create? Through experimentation, we can begin to renegotiate these relationships and heal individuals, communities and ecologies alike.