Messy, entangled, and shapeshifting: Feral Mapping

Feral Experiments in CreaTures Co-Laboratory

“…The authors of this article are creative practitioners and practice-based researchers who have been engaging with eco-social sustainability through what we call 'feral' ways of sensemaking. In this article, we explore feral as a quality to appraise open-ended, spontaneous, unexpected, more-thanhuman encounters that unfold beyond the bounds of human control, embracing indeterminacy and surprise as both generative and critical elements (Dolejšová et al, 2023;Choi et al, 2024). We investigate how the concept of 'feral' within creative eco-social inquiries can help us better understand ways that human intentions may evolve beyond the bounds of anthropocentrism and rational sensemaking to support more-than-human collaborations and making sense with (rather than of) various creatures who make our worlds (in this article, we use the term more-than-human to recognize the many species, agencies, and processes which humans dwell in close relation with).…”