Intertwined Biosphere research project update – June 2025
The road to sustainable citizenship lies in the conversations of life – Tim Ingold in ‘How to imagine a sustainable world’ (2024).
This spring, we continued our conversations on the Intertwined Biosphere. After a successful start to collaboration at the Intertwined Biosphere Workshop in May 2024, Esteban Jobbágy and Ariane König were invited to return for research visits. The laboratory also welcomed postdoc Tomás Milani for three weeks. The conversations are contributing to ongoing research; on the elements of life and on different ways of knowing that are rooted in understanding humans as embedded within the biosphere.
During her research stay, Ariane was invited to present her work on ‘Futures for the Pluriverse: A Grounded Approach to Scenario Design’ at a seminar with participants from the Laboratory and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. The seminar served to discuss latest insights into transdisciplinary research approaches to catalyse knowledge co-production on humans in the biosphere across differences in expertise, interests and understandings. The research brings together actor groups from diverse professions to identify fields for concerted action for biosphere regeneration that hold promise to all engaged, whilst exploring differences in understandings of human-biosphere relations as spaces for creativity and transformation.
Ariane could also submit a perspective paper on ‘Regenerative food system governance: Imagination infrastructures for the co-production of transformative knowledge and practice’ on behalf of the team of co-authors that includes Andrew Hattle, Franscisco Goncalves-Gomez and Oscar Hartman Davies, who are all affiliated with the Anthropocene Laboratory. Fundamental ideas for this paper were forged at the May 2024 Workshop of the Intertwined Biosphere project.
Esteban gave a seminar at the water resilience colloquium at SRC, entitled: ‘Are people and agriculture getting decoupled in the Anthropocene?‘. In this seminar Esteban explored the role of food export and the spatial distribution of agricultural activity and human settlements over time.