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PAPERS: More-than-Human in the Real-World: Regeneration, Radical Solidarity and Learning Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Zoom Link Accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/george-square-40-lecture-theatres Session Chair: Iohanna nicenboim, tu delft Session Chair: Joseph Lindley, Lancaster University | |
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Toward an ecology of imagination in Benwell 1: Open Lab - School of Computing- Newcastle University; 2: School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape - Newcastle University This paper investigates the emergence of imagination as a participatory ecological process among children and adolescents in a deprived post-industrial area of Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Responding to ongoing debates about representation and agency in More-than-Human design, we advance an ecology of imagination as a theoretical framework. We situate imagination as a dynamic, evolving network of relations among diverse and ephemeral spatial-temporal actors. Drawing on a summer of ethnographic fieldwork, the paper analyses three examples of imaginative play to illustrate how spatial, material, and affective interactions generate conditions for collective creative play between humans and non-humans. The discussion explores imagination as an ecological, transformative and distributed capacity that reconfigures relations between people, place, and environment. In conclusion, the paper articulates implications for More-than-Human design practice, advocating situated, playful approaches to support the envisioning and inhabiting of more just and sustainable futures. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1904
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