ABSTRACT
Within biology, biodiversity is understood as an affluence, a surplus that goes beyond what humans need for functional survival. Yet, like the aesthetic dimension of architecture and the notion of human well-being in sociology, we hypothesize that it is vital in rebalancing our ecological ability of interspecies co-existence and creative impact on the planet. This paper outlines and discusses the process of developing a transdisciplinary post-growth research frame inquiring if interspecies well-being and refraining from excessive consumption and building can be correlated to certain spatial traits in terrestrial and built environments. The ambition is to obtain high quality empirical data that can inform transdisciplinary and transformative action-based research practices while testing whether a co-created local environment enhanced by interspecies well-being holds macros-scale regenerative potentials? This is pursued by systematically mirroring and integrating the notion of Ecospace, describing the biodiversity potential of local terrestrial biotopes in a macro-scale perspective, to embody also the built environment and the human species in a techno- and biosphere continuum.
