Resources

Selected Recommended Readings
 

Abram, D. (1997). The spell of the sensuous: perception and language in a more-than-human world. New York: Vintage Books. 

 

Alexander, S. (2017). Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth. Melbourne: Simplicity Institute.

 

Ali, R. and D. Dincer. (2025). “A Bibliometric Evaluation of the Use of Biomimicry as a Nature-Compatible Design Approach in Landscape Architecture Within the Context of Sustainability and Ecology.” Biomimetics, 10(9): 559. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics10090559

 

Attoh, K., C. Dalton, E. Fraser, J. Thatcher and J. Crampton. (2024). “Speculative geographies: Fictions and futures.” Dialogues in Human Geography, 14(2): 371-380. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206241242470 

 

Auger, J. (2013). “Speculative design: crafting the speculation.” Digital Creativity, 24(1): 11-35. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2013.767276 

 

Barkham, P. (2025, August 9). “Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds.” The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/09/human-connection-to-nature-has-declined-60-in-200-years-study-finds

 

Boetzkes, A. (2019). Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

 

Clegg, B. (2023). Biomimetics: How Lessons From Nature can Transform Technology. London: HotScience.

 

Dunne, A. and F. Raby. (2024). Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

 

Engelmann, S. (2019). “Of spiders and simulations: artmachines at Studio Tomás Saraceno.” Cultural geographies, 26(3): 305-322. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474019838310 

 

French, E. and A. White. (2024). Ecologies in Practice: Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada. Waterloo, ON: WLU Press.

 

Future Observatory Journal. (2025). https://futureobservatory.org/ 

 

Harre, O.T., L.H. Laursen, H.J. Andersen, R. Neuhoff and L. Simeone. (2025). “Framing artistic practices through new materialism to ensure multispecies futuring in the built environment.” Futures, 166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2024.103532 

 

Hawkins, H. (2011). “Dialogues and Doings: Sketching the Relationships Between Geography and Art.” Geography Compass, 5(7): 464-478. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2011.00429.x 

 

Hoffman, J. (2022). Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities We Need. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books.

 

Hu, B. and D. Huang. (2025). “Designing-with More-than-Human Through Human Augmentation.” Arxiv.org. DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.12533

 

Ilieva, L., I. Ursano, L. Traista, B. Hoffmann and H. Dahy. (2022). “Biomimicry as a Sustainable Design Methodology—Introducing the ‘Biomimicry for Sustainability’ Framework.” Biomimetics, 7(2): 37. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics7020037

 

Irwin, A. (2026, January 7) “‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI.” Nature news feature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04150-w

 

Kapsali, V. (2023). Biomimetics for Designers: Applying Nature’s Processes & Materials in the Real World. London: Thames & Hudson.

 

Lorimer, J. and T. Hodgetts. (2024). More-Than-Human. Key Ideas in Geography. London: Routledge.

 

Louv, R. (2005). Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 

 

Loveless, N. (2019). How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation. Durham: Duke University Press.

 

Malpass, M. (2017). Critical Design in Context: History, Theory, and Practices. London: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.

 

McGuirk, J. (Ed.). (2025). More-Than-Human: Making with the Living World. London, UK: Design Museum Publishing. 

 

National Geographic. (2025) “Habitats and Microhabitats.” Education. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/resource-library-habitats-and-microhabitats/ 

 

Rousell, D., M. Gallagher and M.P. Wright. (2022). “Becoming Listening Bodies: Sensing the Affective Atmospheres of the City with Young Children.” In N. Williams and T. Keating (Eds.), Speculative Geographies: Ethics, Technologies, Aesthetics. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 251-267.

 

Sponsel, L.E. (2012). Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

 

Tabb, P.J. (2021). Biophilic Urbanism: Designing Resilient Communities for the Future. London: Routledge.

 

Tharpe, B.M. and S.M. Tharpe. (2018). Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

 

Veillette, M. (2021). “Camps of listening: speculating visceral forms of ecological awareness at resource extraction sites through an acoustically attentive architecture.” [Masters Thesis]. Laurentian University of Sudbury. file:///C:/Users/ljudge/Downloads/Veillette_Miguel_MArch%20Thesis.pdf 

 

Vint, S. (2021). Science Fiction. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

 

Walton, M. (2019). One Planet One Health. Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney Press.

 

Williams, N. and T. Keating. (2022). Speculative Geographies: Ethics, Technologies, Aesthetics. Singapore: Palgrave and Macmillan.