Community and Partnerships
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Projects and Initiatives
The Center’s community is an expanding network of leaders exploring and integrating diverse ways of understanding and being in relationship with the living world. We foster an open and respectful environment for civil discourse—creating space for idea sharing in community.
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Featured Projects and Partnerships
Partner
Curated Exhibition by Andrew S. Yang
Making Kin—Worlds Becoming
Making Kin is an online art exhibition exploring the visual dimensions of kinship in a more-than-human world. With work from 24 artists from around the world, Making Kin is in conversation with the themes—Planet, Place, Partners, Persons, Practice—that are central to the Center for Humans and Nature’s five-volume book series, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations. The participating artists illuminate the deep connections between humans and nature while inviting us to consider how kinship practices and ethics can expand our sense of identity, as well as deepen our care and respect for other-than-human kin.
Making Kin is part of the Center for Humans and Nature’s Kinship Project, which includes a five-volume book series, podcast, and ongoing events.
Partner
Wisconsin Public Radio’s To the Best of Our Knowledge
Kinship with the More-Than-Human World
In partnership with Wisconsin Public Radio’s To the Best of Our Knowledge and with support from the Kalliopeia Foundation, the Center for Humans and Nature is exploring the theme of “kinship” in a special series of radio and podcast episodes. Leading scientists, philosophers, and writers illuminate ways in which “personhood” transcends the human species and shows how kinship practices can deepen our care and respect for the more-than-human world.
What are your ideas?
We’d love to find opportunities to work together on projects and initiatives.
Meet Our Contributors
Meet our community of contributors. They are advocates for the wisdom of nature, and they are committed to exploring our relationships and responsibilities to each other and the whole community of life.
What’s Happening at the Center
Latest News
Kinship Brings Home the Gold (Nautilus Award)!
We’re excited to announce that our five-volume series, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, has been named a Nautilus Gold Award Winner in the category of “Ecology and Environment”!
A Big Announcement and a New Way to Connect
Dearest friends, A little more than two years ago, the Center for Humans and Nature began a journey. Our organization had just moved from downtown Chicago to Libertyville, Illinois—a new beginning
Upcoming Events
Making Space for Indigenous Voices: Sharing Our Stories with the World
What Stories Does the Land Hold? is a conversation series co-presented by the Center for Humans and Nature and The New School at Commonweal as part of the Center’s Questions for a Resilient
Indigenous Plant Medicine: Growing a Deeper Connection with the Natural World
What Stories Does the Land Hold? is a conversation series co-presented by the Center for Humans and Nature and The New School at Commonweal as part of the Center’s Questions for a Resilient
Anishinaabe Thinking, Being, Doing, Knowing, and Living
What Stories Does the Land Hold? is a conversation series co-presented by the Center for Humans and Nature and The New School at Commonweal as part of the Center’s Questions for a Resilient
