Planetary Planning Podcast

In this episode, I speak with Brais Suárez Eiroa, a researcher working at the intersection of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology, with a particular focus on post-growth transitions. He is currently a member of the Post-Growth Innovation Lab at the University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain)and a collaborator at the Research Centre for Territory, Transport and Environment at the University of...

In this episode, we hear from Ania Rzymyskiewicz, a visual communication designer, facilitator and creative strategist, who helps us imagine what a more planetary future could really look like, and what matters when we think about this. Ania’s work aims to help organizations turn ideas into purpose-driven, clarity-led action. Her work blends process facilitation with regenerative design...

In this episode, Claudia Fernandez de Cordoba Farini joins us for an in-depth conversation about “Living Imaginaries”, how we can access alternative imaginaries that include more-than-humans, and several very concrete examples to ground this. Claudia is founder of “Living Imaginaries”, a social enterprise that combines bold imagination with grounded pathways for structural change. The enterprise...

In this episode, we hear from Rui Monteiro, and especially his experience working with the RioNeiva Environmental NGO. He tells us about this NGO, its origins in society and the local context of the northern coast of Portugal, and how the association evolved over time in its continued quest to ensure the environmental and social sustainability in the area, handling various emerging challenges and...

This is a different episode from the usual ones. Here I’m the one sharing some insights and ideas from my own research project, the EU-MSCA-funded MobileWorlds Research Project, based at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and mentored by Prof. Wendy Tan. Most importantly, I share here some of the core ideas that intersect between the Planetary Planning Podcast and the MobileWorlds...

In this episode, we hear from Sharon Sand. Sharon is an Urban Planner focused on climate change adaptation, protecting biodiversity, and providing equitable access to nature, parks and green schoolyards. She is on the Government Affairs team as Public Grants Program Senior Manager for Trust for Public Land in California (USA) to obtain public funding for land conservation and urban park projects...

In this episode, Mariko O. Thomas and Melissa M. Parks join us to share some of their insights on plant communication, and from and process of writing the book “Storying Plant Communication. More-than-Human Relationships in New Mexico”, available for pre-order now, and to be published in October. As the book description explains, the book “explores the narrative accounts of southwestern...

In this episode, Edda Bild shares insights on human and more-than-human sounds, and which of these are considered more positively, versus which tend to be considered “noise”. Edda currently works as post-doctoral research associate at the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto, Canada, where she focuses on topics around occupational health and safety, like the newcomer experience in the...

In this episode, Subina Shrestha, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Network for Equity in Sustainable Transition (CERC NEST) at the University of Toronto Scarborough in Canada, shares her insights about how the field of logistics is changing spaces, human relations, and more - and especially through the increasing dominance of more-than-human, or perhaps rather: less-than-human, digital...

In this episode, we speak with Liz Challinor, researcher in anthropology at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) of the New University of Lisbon, as well as fiction and poetry writer. She shares her reflections on categories along which we see others - and ourselves - and how it is often forgotten that we have multiple identities, when in fact this is crucial. In fact, creating...