The Habitable Skin

Rewild Your Roots. Cultivate the Future.

The city is buzzing with life, yet we often overlook everything but the human. Living With Other Species is a six-part evening school—with talks, film screenings, and city walks—exploring how to plan for and live alongside other species in the cities of the future. Moving across scales from regional planning to the secret lives of bats, ants, and m

A conversation on regional planning for all species, infrastructural imagination, and perma culture. (Nb. The event is part of Living With Other Species: An Evening School)

'Animal Antics' (Patrick Goddard) with introduction by Madeleine Kate McGowan and Mikkel Møller Roesdahl

A conversation on the role of insects as urban workers—pollinators, decomposers, and ecosystem engineers—and how designing with (and for) them challenges aesthetic norms, maintenance culture, and anthropocentric planning.

A lecture on how microbes and human well-being is connected through soil ecologies, building materials, and urban planning—and how acknowledging processes of decay can inform healthier, more resilient cities. After the lecture Madland, MYCO, and Bygaard will serve a snack of mushrooms harvested from the exhibition (To be confirmed)