{"id":25009,"date":"2025-06-19T13:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hy-phen.space\/journal\/?page_id=25009"},"modified":"2025-06-22T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:27:42","slug":"hyphen-colloquium-more-than-human-socialities-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hy-phen.space\/journal\/hyphen-colloquium-more-than-human-socialities-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyphen Colloquium: More-than-human Socialities (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hyphen Journal<\/a> presents:<\/h4>\n

Hyphen Colloquium: More-than-human Socialities<\/h1>\n
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Erik Verheggen, In the Thicket: Exploring Nitrogen-Laden Ecology<\/em>, 2025; and Beatriz Paz Jim\u00e9nez, Composting the underworld with quelites<\/em>, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 2\u20135pm BST.<\/p>\n

Panel 1: 14:00\u201315:20
\nBeing, thinking and knowing-with
\n<\/strong>El\u017cbieta Kowalska, Beatriz Paz Jim\u00e9nez and CONCH (Rhona Eve Clews & Elaine Fisher)<\/p>\n

Panel 2: 15:40\u201317:00
\nSensing and making sense
\n<\/strong>Sensory Experience Design Studio (Nong Hua Lim, Kornbongkoch Harnpinijsak and Weichen Tang), \u00a0J. Rojas Routon<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>
\nRoom C109
\nUniversity of Westminster
\n115 New Cavendish Street
\nLondon W1W 6UW<\/p>\n

And online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To mark the launch of Hyphen Journal<\/a><\/em> Issue 3.2: Ecologies, we invite you to a hybrid (in-person\/online) colloquium. The issue explores expanded notions of ecology and interdependence, with contributions that critically engage with themes including human-bacterial relations, non-binary bodies and ice, women in decolonial anti-extractivist activism, the Covid pandemic as pandaemonium, photography and nitrogen-altered landscapes, synthetic sound ecologies, dwelling and consumer culture, more-than-human notions of film curation, and intersections between new materialist thought and particle physics, through both theoretical and practice-based approaches.<\/p>\n

This colloquium will feature contributors to Issue 3.2, as well as the forthcoming Issue 4: Socio-ecological Practice, who will present and discuss their research.<\/p>\n

The colloquium will be held as part of the University of Westminster\u2019s Graduate School Festivall 2025 \u2013 Challenging Pasts \/ Critical Futures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Abstracts<\/h4>\n

El\u017cbieta Kowalska, Mapping the gut buddies<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

El\u017cbieta\u2019s talk is centred around key cultural and medical concepts that she met on the way while doing autoethnographic research about so-called human microbiome, which can also be viewed as a human-microbes assemblage. The process of mapping is evoked here as it is crucial to create the space of legibility, path of knowledge, and self-orientation. This \u201cline of flight\u201d map is crucially participating in imagining, perceiving, and creating future relationships not only with humans\u2019 inner bacterial realm but with wider planetary ecologies.<\/p>\n

Beatriz Paz Jim\u00e9nez, Challenging the narrative about wild edible greens in urban imaginaries<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cities are sites of displacement. Elemental, mineral, animal, vegetable, and human bodies have been uprooted from their native landscapes to fuel the economic forces that shape the urban sphere. But cities do more than shift materials\u2014they also displace imagination, memory, and pathways of creation. This is a form of relational extractivism, one that draws upon life itself, and inevitably, upon foodways.<\/p>\n

Yet within the cracks of the city, a living and growing resistance persists\u2014an embodied knowledge that teaches us ancestral ways of envisioning a future grounded in co-creation rather than extraction. Wild edible greens emerge as a nurturing force, offering a means to counteract relational dislocation and to re-territorialise our bodies as urban dwellers.<\/p>\n

Through art, social communication, and food practices, we can learn together how to sow these greens in our collective imaginaries\u2014and from there, return\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0soil.<\/p>\n

Sensory Experience Design Studio (Nong Hua Lim, Kornbongkoch Harnpinijsak and Weichen Tang), Sensing Our Environment \u2013 the ‘Sounds and Sweet Airs’ Project<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a sensory project that aims to evoke conversations about human-environment relationships through an immersive synthetic sound ecology featuring several mechanical ‘species’ of creatures that generate sounds from everyday recycled materials. These critters, each having its own personality, are sensitive to different elements of the physical environment. When distributed in a built environment, they create an evolving soundscape that reflects the state of the space they occupy and collectively produce a nature-like sound atmosphere the kind of which is gradually disappearing in our ever urbanised environments. Through a series of iterations and evolutions, the work rethinks humans\u2019 sonic relationship to the built environment in relation to memories of natural habitats. By immersing the audience in a sound field of subtle auditory cues, the project stimulates more intimate sensory connections to the spaces around us.<\/p>\n

J. Rojas Routon, Auxiliary notes, musings and daydreams<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The author of \u2018Pandaemonium, 2020 hindsight and Animal life\u2019 will informally discuss the sources of inspiration, the images and ideas that lead to writing, as well as, some secondary themes and inevitable lose-ends that haunt the text.<\/p>\n

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Image: J. Rojas Routon, Spiked Corona<\/em>, 2025; and El\u017cbieta Kowalska, Atmospheric and organic correlations<\/em>, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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