ABSTRACT

This collection arises from an AHRC-funded research project called In Conversation with. . .: codesign with more-than-human communities that ran in 2013, as well as a series of panels held at the RGS-IBG International Conference in 2014 on the Co-Production of knowledge with non-humans. In both cases we sought to explore the notion of a ‘more-than-human participatory research’. Yet to say ‘more-than-human participatory research’ seems like too much of a mouthful. These are words that do not roll easily off the tongue, but instead suggest some kind of cacophony, some noisy dissonance. These are words that seem like they should not really sit beside each other, words that do not quite make sense.