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Back in February, we held an experimental Town Anywhere lab at @islington_climate_centre to explore the emerging more-than-human thread of our work.

We thought long and hard about how to curate the lab in ways that would embed a deeper ecological presence, so that participants could think and design beyond siloed, human-centric logic.

Several activities have emerged from our research and lab session, which we’ve been able to test at a recent Town Anywhere workshop in Swiss Cottage with @thewinchcamden.

Read about this unfolding work on our latest Equinox Substack - link in our Linktree!

The lab was designed by Town Anywhere’s Evaluation & Innovation lead Emma McFarland @emmamcfarland1 , and co facilitated by Emma and Town Anywhere’s Director, @ruthbentovim.

Thank you to lab participatns - @get_lost_julian @wyrdfutures, Ed Jarvis @climatemajorityproject, Justine Huxley @kincentricleadership, @annemarieculhane Shelley Castle @fletefieldlab, Lucy Neal @walkingforest4, Bel Jacobs @empathypr0ject & Rhiannon Keen.

And species mask designers - Shelley Castle, @ionemariarojas and @dylan_mcgarry !

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Vol 3 flickthrough

There isn't one way to be wild. It shows up differently across cultures and territories – but the roots are shared. We've just mostly forgotten, beneath the patterns of modern life.
So in every volume we gather stories of lived experience from across the world, alongside practical guides to remembering – and living wilder, right where you are.

Here: Reclaiming Roots and Wilding Attention, two of the pieces inside Vol 3: Wildness. 🌿

Out now – link in bio.

#wildness #rewilding #regeneration #slowliving #bioregionalism #naturewriting

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“Your attention is not broken. It’s being corralled — culverted away from everything that sustains life.”

We treat distraction as a personal failing. Julian Ellerby offers something better: attention isn’t just focus, it’s an ecology — shaped by place, memory, and the more-than-human world. Like any living system, it thrives on diversity. Feed it only feeds, and it narrows.

In Vol 3, he shares five rituals for wilding the way we notice — small, deliberate practices for being here again.

“I am an antenna. We all are.”

Read Wilding Attention by Julian Ellerby — full piece in this week’s Meanderings. Link in bio 🌿
#wildness #attention #rewilding #presence

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It’s here. Volume Three: Wildness is out today. 🌿

What does it mean to be a wild human?

We tend to locate wildness out there – in remote landscapes, untouched forests, creatures that haven’t yet learned to fear us. What if it starts within?

For thousands of years we’ve domesticated nature to serve us – and domesticated ourselves in the process: overriding instinct, mistrusting the body, outsourcing our attention to systems built to capture it.

Across 172 pages, this volume is an antidote to that detachment - a picture of wildness that is plural, embodied and alive.

It exists because of these voices. With deep gratitude to every contributor:

@saracampbelldyd @bookofvoices · @bayo.akomolafe · Benjamin Freud · @rubyrreed · @christabel_rose · @laurelinesk · @bethwalrond · @wyrdfutures · @wilder.land · Melissa Vigogne · @ecolog.ish · @natkelley · @insideheddashead · Mrs Hai · Yannike Schoonhoven· @r_u__ta · @nielsdevisscher · Koffi Agbossoumonde · Elis Parry · @evgenia_emets · @sylviavlinsteadt · @nikkikapp_
Guest edited by @vivivigliar

And with thanks to our partners @commonland4returns @wearethe_regeneration @wildcardcampaign @rewrite.project.eu

This isn’t a volume about escaping into nature. It’s about what happens when wildness finds its way back in.

If you want to rewild your life, this one’s for you. Order at the link in bio.

#wildness #rewilding #regeneration #slowliving

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A short reflection on seriousness and play.
On imagination, culture, and the things we often dismiss as not useful enough.

It explores how change is shaped only by policy and evidence, but by story, feeling, and the kinds of practices we allow ourselves to value.

Written as an open inquiry rather than a conclusion.

Image from the brilliant work by @furtherfield for Treaty of Finsbury Park.

Link in bio.

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If imagination builds futures from what has already been lived, then the question is not only where we are going, but what experiences, stories, and timescales we allow to shape our imagination now.

I’ve written a reflection on deep time walking, deep ecology, and how practices that stretch our sense of time can change how we relate to responsibility, care, and the world we are helping to create.

This piece found me on walks and daily wonderings on a high ridge at the southern edge of London.

It’s now live on Substack.
Link in bio.

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RTCT is excited to share this fantastic opportunity from our partners — including Bucksum, who are active members of our Thame Catchment Farm Cluster. Link to application in our bio.

If you know any landholders who might be a good fit, please do share.

🌱 Landholders wanted — help back the next generation of growers.

Grow More Growers is matching landholders with four new-entrant growers to launch commercial agroecological enterprises across Buckinghamshire and East Oxfordshire.

If you have up to 3 acres of suitable land, you could host a new grower for 3 years with:

✅ £250/acre/year
✅ Up to £5,000 infrastructure grant
✅ Support to create a flexible, fair agreement
✅ Ongoing guidance from pilot partners including Bucksum, @RealFarmingTrust, and @uniofbath
✅ Strengthen local food, nature-friendly farming, and new grower pathways.

Apply by Fri 5 Dec, 7pm:
👉 Application Form: https://forms.gle/aEoHctDVwAVSySDY7

Questions? info@growmoregrowers.org

Please share with any landholders who might be a fit. 🙏

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What if skylarks shaped policy? Or rivers had a say in the future of land use?

🎥 In this short film, we meet four people who stepped into the voices of red grouse, wheat field, skylark, and yellow rattle — and discover what it means to make policy not just with humans in mind, but informed by the living world.

🗨️ Earlier this year, artists, ecologists, activists and policy thinkers came together in London for an Interspecies Council, to represent the voices of the more-than-human world and to create a collective response to the UK Government’s Land Use Consultation.

💞 The Interspecies Council, part of the Moral Imaginations methodology, invited participants to listen beyond the human, to imagine policy rooted in care, and to shape systems that serve life in all its forms.

Rather than speaking about nature, participants are invited to speak as nature, and bridge this into real-world decision making.

⚖️ How do we balance food security with nature recovery? What governance structures truly serve the land? How can we meet both biodiversity and net zero targets while honouring all life?

You can read the full response, convened and submitted by @wearefoodrise, @moral_imagining and @wyrdfutures futures via our link in bio.

🦋 Can you imagine representing your favorite species in a decision? Tell us in the comments below! And if you are interested in learning how to host an Interspecies Council, get in touch via Moral Imaginations’ website.

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What if policy processes were designed not only with humans in mind, but through the lens of multispecies flourishing?

More-than-human governance makes space for a multitude of interests to be considered, and voices to be heard. The Interspecies Council is a more-than-human governance process that builds arts, imagination and role-play into community deliberative democracy to bring alive a conversation between more-than-human actors in an ecosystem or bio-region.

The journey of attending an Interspecies Council involves a profound shift in worldview and perspective, decentering our human selves and interests for the greater purpose of empathy, connection and care with the living world around us. It balances empathy with analysis, bringing both emotional and intellectual presence to the questions being deliberated.

For our project with @wearefoodrise and @wyrdfutures, the Interspecies Council was chosen as a way to break through human-centred approaches to land use and to open space for deeper listening.

Rather than speaking about nature, participants were invited to speak with and as nature, and bridge this into real world decision-making.

What emerged was a chorus of compassion, grief, distress, wisdom, interspecies solidarity, resistance, anger, disarray, humility and invitations to be acknowledged, respected, and cared for. The team listened to all of these responses, and translated them into a written response to Defra’s Land Use team.

The experience brought critical questions to the surface, namely the absence of other-than-human voices in formal decision-making, and the need for new tools and processes.

Many participants spoke of how stepping into a more-than-human perspective shifted their understanding, not only of the beings they represented, but of time, land, responsibility and power.

The Interspecies Council on the themes of land use in England, was an invitation to listen beyond the human, to imagine policy rooted in care, and to shape systems that serve life in all its forms.

Would you like to find out more? Take a look at our Case Study via the link in bio!

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🌱 Back in April, 34 participants gathered at the Paper Gardens in London for something extraordinary: an Interspecies Council. Convened by @wearefoodrise, @moral_imagining and @wyrdfutures, this wasn't your typical policy meeting.

🐦 The Interspecies Council is our participatory methodology that brings the voices of more-than-human life into decision-making. Instead of humans speaking for nature, we create space for species and ecosystems to have their say. This time, we were collectively drafting a response to DEFRA's Land Use Framework consultation.

🌳 Conservationists, ecologists, artists, designers, activists and policy thinkers came together. But here's what made it powerful: through story, embodiment and expanding their imagination, they spoke as their chosen beings during Council. A river. A hedgerow. A barn owl. Each voice bringing a different perspective to land use.

🏞️ Throughout the day, they grappled with profound questions:
How do we balance food security with nature recovery?
What governance structures truly serve the land?
How can we meet both biodiversity and net zero targets while honoring all life?

📝 From this process, a formal response emerged—written entirely from the words spoken in Council. Every paragraph came from the voices of beings and creatures who rarely get heard in policy rooms.

✨ Our joint organisations are releasing this Case Study that tells the full story of what was spoken, heard, and what will be carried forward. You can access 'A More-Than-Human Response To Defra's Land Use Consultation For England' via our link in bio!

🦋 We hope this provides a clear example of how to integrate more-than-human perspectives into decision-making.

Through imagination, we can (and must) make space for nature and living beings to be heard in the rooms where decisions about their futures are made.

What would the river in your area say about land use decisions?

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#morethanhuman #governance #policy #decisionmaking #landuse #agriculture #naturerecovery #biodiversity #netzero #ecocentric #imagination #rewilding #nature #resilience #climatechange #interspeciescouncil #moralimagination #imaginationactivism

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