The DSooE team has developed dialoguing practices as media for connecting disciplines ‒ particularly ecological engineering ‒ with other-than-human worlds.
These dialoguing practices shift perception beyond anthropocentric perspectives and catalyze intuitive, creative dialogues toward multispecies co-living. They aim to deepen understanding and enhance dialogue and design for common worlds where humans and more-than-humans thrive together.

Grounded in research across freshwater and grassland contexts, our approach draws on crafty practices that create worlds where diverse species flourish together.
In diaologuing practices we focus on masking and mapping, developing hand-drawn and digital templates, maps, and technological artifacts that reflect the ecological realities of Alpine and pre-Alpine habitats.

Dialoguing practices unfold through encounters with diverse field experts ‒ herders, anglers, wildlife monitors, ecological engineers, public officials, and researchers. Interlocutors engage with the practices while adding their own hand-drawn elements, elaborating their perspectives and making them explicit. While primarily targeting studio engineers, all experts working in the field of ecological engineering are invited to experiment with this medium.

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