Animate Spacemaking: a practice of spatial design grounded in traditional ecological and animate knowledge.

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.