For the first seminar in this newly launched series, we invited Sjef van Gaalen to talk about his work on the Zoöp project, a new type of cooperative legal entity that offers membership to humans as well as multispecies ecological communities. Sjef van Gaalen is a design researcher using speculative and participatory methods to explore alternative futures, with a focus on multi-species perspectives and regenerative ecologies.

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