posthuman summer lab

Australian Posthuman Summer Lab 2026 | Day 3 Point Nepean Monmar | Gio the ecologist guides us through Biik/Country via the belly of a late blue tongue lizard. 📷 @angelina._.innocent @rosibraidottiofficial @narweet_carolyn @fihillary @troy_innocent #reworlding #posthuman #naarm #polycrisis #regenerativefutures planetarycivics :::

Sea Country as regenerative community Point Nepean Monmar These workshops develop posthuman methods for engaging with Boonwurrung Land and Sea Country through N’arweet Carolyn Briggs AM’s direct leadership, working with the yulendj barring framework to explore threshold ecologies where bay meets ocean. Posthuman methods tracking back to Boonwurrung understandings of Sea Country’s cycles, materials, and oral histories. The progression—observe tides, engage materials, weave stories—demonstrates how posthuman methods resonate with ancient Indigenous practices through intergenerational knowledge transmission and radical ancestor praxis. In this first workshop a story created for the lab to reconnect language to place acknowledged Point Nepean Monmar as a vital part of their coastal Country. For thousands of years, the Boonwurrung people used the area for fishing, gathering, and in early settler history, suffered the forced removal of women from its beaches. Lab participants were led by Alison Soutar through place-based learning of Boonwurrung language by making playable maps in the sand, learning through experience rather than text closer to oral traditions of sharing language in relation to Country. 📷 @angelina._.innocent @rosibraidottiofficial @narweet_carolyn @fihillary @troy_innocent #reworlding #posthuman #naarm #polycrisis #regenerativefutures planetarycivics :::

Day 3 | Australian Posthuman Summer Lab 2026 | Point Nepean Monmar | Learning to speak Country on Country (biik)… many happy tears were shed. Sea Country as regenerative community Point Nepean Monmar These workshops develop posthuman methods for engaging with Boonwurrung Land and Sea Country through N’arweet Carolyn Briggs AM’s direct leadership, working with the yulendj barring framework to explore threshold ecologies where bay meets ocean. Posthuman methods tracking back to Boonwurrung understandings of Sea Country’s cycles, materials, and oral histories. The progression—observe tides, engage materials, weave stories—demonstrates how posthuman methods resonate with ancient Indigenous practices through intergenerational knowledge transmission and radical ancestor praxis. In this first workshop a story created for the lab to reconnect language to place acknowledged Point Nepean Monmar as a vital part of their coastal Country. For thousands of years, the Boonwurrung people used the area for fishing, gathering, and in early settler history, suffered the forced removal of women from its beaches. Lab participants were led by Alison Soutar through place-based learning of Boonwurrung language by making playable maps in the sand, learning through experience rather than text closer to oral traditions of sharing language in relation to Country. 📷 @angelina._.innocent @rosibraidottiofficial @narweet_carolyn @fihillary @troy_innocent #reworlding #posthuman #naarm #polycrisis #regenerativefutures planetarycivics ::: 📷 @angelina._.innocent

Day 2 | Australian Posthuman Summer Lab 2026 | @rosibraidottiofficial blew everyone’s minds before we got ourselves ready to disperse into groups across three different workshop locations… Nine workshops across three sites develop posthuman methods that carefully navigate intersections and tensions between feminist materialisms, eco-feminisms, socio-technical theory, and Indigenous philosophies: Upper Yarra Reservoir engages industrial ecologies and river rights through listening, walking, and witnessing methods on Wurundjeri Country; Point Nepean explores Sea Country’s tidal, material, and oral knowledges with N’arweet Carolyn Briggs’ direct leadership on Boonwurrung Country; Dandenong Ranges to Coranderrk addresses Indigenous sovereignty, climate-damaged forests, and multispecies relations through grief, debris ecology, and care practices on Wurundjeri Country. Together, these site-specific methods demonstrate how posthuman approaches resonate with ancient Indigenous practices, generating regenerative and restorative methodologies grounded in place, honoring Indigenous sovereignty, and contributing to planetary resilience through thinking-with land, water, and Sea Country. 📷 @angelina._.innocent @posthuman.au @narweet_carolyn @fihillary @troy_innocent #reworlding #posthuman #naarm #planetarycivics #regenerativefutures

Oh to be a cup with a carabiner handle on a trolley gone rogue… Day 1 APHSL 2026 A taste of the ‘Planetary Health Diet’ at the Naarm/Melbourne launch of ‘Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices’ Edited by Goda Klumbytė, Emily Jones, and Rosi Braidotti 📷 @angelina._.innocent

Day 1 | Australian Posthuman Summer Lab 2026 | Radical Ancestors in conversation; yulendj barring: thinking with Land, Water, and Sea Country APHSL 2026 develops an atlas of posthuman methods through the third interdisciplinary laboratory exploring intersections between posthuman and First Peoples knowledges, led by Professor Rosi Braidotti and N’arweet Carolyn Briggs AM with Associate Professor Troy Innocent and Dr Fiona Hillary. The Lab takes up the question of method as indissociable from situated places and times of creative encounter, offering partial cartographies of living practices across more-than-human places, temporalities, and creativities. Through each place curated into the lab, human technologies have impacted our relationship to these sites and how they have been impacted and reshaped in response to Naarm Melbourne. The climate crisis urgently compels us to address the interdependence of human, non-human, and more-than-human entities, fostering profound shifts in ethical and technological paradigms that challenge anthropocentrism. In this final lab of the inaugural trilogy, we ask: how does place shape language and through this entanglement our collective social imaginary, our reality? Regenerative futures demand new ecological literacies and planetary civics that transcend traditional boundaries, forging holistic alliances to navigate climate challenges through literacies extending to the broader biosphere. 📷 @angelina._.innocent @rosibraidottiofficial @narweet_carolyn @fihillary @troy_innocent #reworlding #posthuman #naarm #polycrisis regenerativefutures planetarycivics ::: Images: @angelina._.innocent

Field trip 2: Western Treatment Plant 💩 A journey in understanding our transcorporeality, an invitation to explore the multi-species environs of the Western Treatment Plant. Here, entanglements of species, place, and structure allowed us to think with and understand ourselves as interval to the site’s assemblages. We explored the confluence of freshwater and saltwater intermingling with the treated water of the Western Treatment Plant, where the flows are imbued with human, nonhuman, and more than human convergences, shaping and informing our methods, generating new cartographies for the Posthuman atlas.

Field trip part 3: exploring the regenerative neighbourhood of Cremorne 💚 @fihillary @troy_innocent @future.play.lab

Field trip to Herring Island: part 2 💚 Joy, radical ancestors, community and methodologies.

Field trip part 1: Herring Island 💚 Collaboratively and collectively we moved through the north bank of the Birrarung, floating across to Herring Island where we put reworlding into action through field research testing methods and ideas generated in the lab. We also experienced the beautiful privilege of having Yaluk-ut Weelam and Boon Wurrung elder N’arweet Carolyn Briggs tell us about Country, further informing our research. @fihillary @troy_innocent @rosibraidottiofficial @narweet_carolyn @future.play.lab #posthumansummerlab25 #posthuman #fieldtrip #posthumanism #thefutureisblak #birrarung #herringisland

Playing with sculpture on Herring Island as part of the Posthuman Summer Lab. Jill Peck’s 1997 work “Steerage” is a large-scale granite boat for at one tip of Herring Island, pointing downstream towards the city’s horizon. After a prompt from Troy Innocent @troy_innocent , to contemplate a public space and then engage playfully (that’s drastically edited, of course), I played around with ways to traverse across the uneven surface of granite blocks. One day I’ll get better at framing my videos, I promise. #AlwaysPlayOnPublicArt … Video description: A large, boat-shaped pit paved with uneven granite stones. There is trees and the river in the back ground. A woman in green leggings and a check flannel, moves across the pit and back again in a variety of ways, striding, jumping and crawling

Day 4: Playfully planning for symbiosis in regenerative neighbourhoods through affirmation and joy in 2050 during the Australian Posthuman Summer Lab 💚🎶🌿 It’s been a wild three days of mapping, making, and methods; @rosibraidottiofficial returns today for a writing workshop with @non_fictionlab as we start to crafting the next posthuman atlas @troy_innocent @fihillary #posthuman #urbanplay #reworlding #placekeeping #speculativedesign