Developed by Anne-Sofie Belling, Bea Delgado Corrales, Romy Kaiser and Paula Nerlich, Human-Bacteria Interfaces introduces the novel concept of human-bacteria interfaces within the context of the built environment. 

Planetary Personhood is an interplanetary campaign pursuing radical space decolonization. Project initiators Nonhuman Nonsense—Leo Fidjeland and Linnea Våglund—talk with us about the project’s development.

Jingru (Cyan) Cheng & Chen Zhan share an overview of the process of Ripple, Ripple, Rippling, a project about the situated knowledge in the survival tactics of marginalized groups rooted in precarity; that is, how to settle in liminality, inhabit thresholds, and enact interdependency. 

Juan Pablo García Sossa expands on The Tropical Turn—Maneuvers for a Planetary Embodiment, a thought experiment and research project that explores other modes of coexistence between all forms of life on the planet from a Tropikós perspective.

How can we leverage the power of science, technology and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach to help give coastal wetlands and their microbial worlds a warming, collective voice? We talk to Sonia Mehra Chawla and Miriam Walsh for more insights on The Rooted Sea: Halophytic Futures.

Andra Pop-Jurj and Lena Geerts Danau share more details about their project, Monsters and Ghosts of the Far North, which departs from the spatial manifestations of the social, economic, and geopolitical conflicts in the Arctic region caused by environmental degradation.

Eylül Şenses gives us a closer look into the research project Indigenous Language of Taşlica: A Case of Interspecies Communication.

Computer programmer, technologist, and artist Iris Qu 曲晓宇 discusses her project Do AIs Dream of Climate Chaos.

An interview with designer Andrea de Chirico about his project Superlocal — 0 Miles Production.

An interview with Linda Schilling Cuellar and Claudio Astudillo Barra of AHORA, about their project Toxicity Distributed — Post-extractivism Economies.

One of the partners of Driving the Human, acatech, the National Academy of Science and Engineering, is the voice of the technological sciences in Germany and abroad. Its board member, Prof. Dr. Martina Schraudner, discusses how Driving the Human overlaps with the institutions‘ interests and activities.