On Thursday, 11 June 2026 (13:00–14:00 CET), Reworlding hosts an online webinar exploring Retracing as a capability for participatory design and socio-environmental research. Researchers from across the consortium will reflect on situated knowledge, more-than-human perspectives, alternative temporalities, and collaborative research practices through a series of research cases and discussions.

 

The webinar features contributions from Prof. Dr. Cristiano Storni, Carolina Carvalho, Anannya Bhowmik Paul, Aslı Kolbas, and Júlia Tena Mensa.

 

More information and registration via the event page: https://reworlding.eu/events

 

For any questions, please contact: info@reworlding.eu

How can institutions be rethought in times of socio-environmental transition?

 

On Tuesday, 21 April 2026 (12:00–13:00 CET), the Reworlding project hosts an online webinar on Reinstitutioning, bringing together Prof. Maurizio Teli and Prof. Dr. Tom Børsen. In this session, they will explore how the concept of institutioning informs both design research and educational practices.

 

The webinar also serves as an introduction to the Reworlding Spring School on Reinstitutioning, taking place in May 2026 at UHasselt. It is aimed at researchers, practitioners, and students interested in participatory design, collective imagination, and socio-environmental transitions.

 

Participants can expect short inputs on institutioning in research and education, followed by an interactive Q&A session. The webinar will be recorded for inclusion in the Reworlding MOOC; contributions during the Q&A may be anonymised or edited.

 

Registration
👉 https://forms.gle/PENDaqHc21VfWLc96

 

After registration, participants will receive a copy of their responses. The webinar link and access details will be shared by email at least one week before the session.

 

For any questions, please contact: info@reworlding.eu

As part of the Reworlding Spring School (4–8 May 2026), we are pleased to introduce a series of keynote lectures bringing together leading researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of participatory design, governance and more-than-human perspectives.

 

These lectures offer insights into ongoing socio-environmental transitions and explore new approaches to institutional change, each from a distinct angle.

 

The keynote programme includes:

 

• 4 May 2026 – Re-institutioning & Governance
  Liesbeth Huybrechts & Rachel Clarke
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• 5 May 2026 – Democratic Innovation through Co-Design
  Brian Dixon
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• 6 May 2026 – Eco-social Change & Participatory Practice
  Ann Light
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• 7 May 2026 – Design & the Civic Economy
  Martijn de Waal
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All lectures take place at UHasselt, at the historic Beguinage in Hasselt (Belgium), and can be attended individually.

 

More information on the Reworlding Spring School and the keynotes is also available via the Reworlding event page.

We have already received many strong and inspiring applications for the Reworlding Spring School 2026. Thank you to everyone who applied!
If you have already submitted an application, there is no need to reapply - your submission remains fully valid.

 

As the first call was relatively short, we have decided to extend the deadline until Monday, 16 February 2026, 5 PM.

 

During the recent Reworlding mid-term meeting in Trento, we also took the opportunity to further sharpen the focus of the Spring School. This results in a clearer emphasis on re-institutioning and a streamlined structure of three thematic lenses instead of six.

 

Practical information
📍 Reworlding Spring School: Re-institutioning
🗓 4–8 May 2026
📌 UHasselt, Beguinage, Hasselt, Belgium

 

Together we will explore how institutions can be rethought and reshaped in times of socio-environmental crisis. This includes more-than-human perspectives, new forms of collaboration, and governance models that foreground inclusivity, care, and diversity.

 

Three thematic lenses

• - Politics of Institutions

• - Embodied Institutions

• - Institutions in Dialogue

 

Through lectures, workshops, and interactive sessions, participants will critically engage with existing institutional models and co-design alternative ones.

 

Who can apply
PhD students, postdocs, and early-career researchers with an interest in participatory approaches.

 

More information & application: Reworlding website – Events

 

Application deadline: 16 February 2026, 5 PM

The Reworlding Spring School will take place at UHasselt, at the historic Beguinage in Hasselt, from May 4–8, 2026! This 5-day intensive programme explores the role of “re-institutioning” in socio-environmental transitions, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and students to engage with new approaches to governance, collaboration, and more-than-human perspectives.

 

The Spring School will feature lectures, thematic workshops, and interactive sessions guided by Reworlding fellows. Workshops are organized around six thematic lenses:

 

- Everyday Resilience

- Embodied Engagement

- Emotional Landscapes

- Commoning Energy

- Political F(r)ictions

- Critical Translations

 

Participants will have the opportunity to interact with these lenses, respond to guiding questions from Reworlding fellows, and contribute their own questions and perspectives.

 

Who can apply: The call is open to participants with an academic or research interest aligned with the themes of the Spring School.

 

Application process: Interested participants can apply via the online form on the Reworlding website. In the application, please include a motivation letter (max. 2 pages) addressing:

 

• - Which lens or lenses you wish to engage with
  
  

• - How you plan to interact with the guiding questions and contribute new ones
  
  

• - (Optional) How your own research or practice relates to the themes of the Spring School

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The application deadline is Sunday, 1 February 2026. Selected participants will receive further instructions on the lenses and questions prior to the Spring School. A detailed programme will be published in early February.

 

For more information and to apply, please visit: https://reworlding.eu/events

We are excited to announce the launch of our Atlas of Synergies, a growing collection of collaborations, practices, and research pathways emerging within the Reworlding network. The Atlas gathers research approaches that reveal how humans and more-than-humans shape and care for their environments. Through retracing, these approaches do not attempt to “discover” new worlds but follow existing traces - connections, dependencies, and everyday ways of living in worlds that often remain unseen. The atlas also emphasizes the role of more-than-human actors in these processes, highlighting how they are entangled with human practices.

 

The atlas invites you to explore these approaches, try them out, and reflect on what they can mean for your own context. At the same time, we are opening an open call for new Retracing Approaches. We warmly invite researchers, policymakers, and organisations who work with a retracing practice to share their approach with us. This can be a method, field practice, case study, experiment, or any situated form of doing that offers insight into how retracing contributes to socio-ecological transitions.

 

How to contribute

- Send a short email to info@reworlding.eu expressing your interest to contribute.

- You will then receive a template from us to fill in with the details of your retracing approach for inclusion in the atlas.

- There is no deadline - the atlas will grow continuously as new contributions come in.

 

We look forward to expanding the atlas together and making these collective practices visible.

 

We are excited to announce that the Reworlding Spring School will take place at UHasselt from May 4 to 8, 2026! In this reworlding spring school we explore the role of “re-institutioning” in socio-environmental transitions.

 

While the program is still in the making, indicative topics will include:

 

• - How to design the interrelations between communities and (public and private) institutions in tackling socio-environmental transitions (e.g. in farming, water, energy, labour,...)
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• - How new forms of human and more-than-human collaboration can be introduced within governmental and private institutions (e.g. with an eye for inclusivity, diversity)
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• - Reflecting if a “more-than-human governance” - governance taking into account both human and more-than-human lifeworlds - of transitions can take shape (e.g. bioregions)

 

PhD students interested in these themes can submit a one-page motivation letter. The call will be launched on January 6. A group of 20 participants will be selected to join a series of preparatory online lectures and the spring school itself.

 

More information and registration details will follow soon. Stay tuned and don’t miss out!

We are delighted to announce that our REWORLDING partner Chiara Bassetti, together with Paolo Boccagni, is organising the 10th edition of the Winter School in Ethnography at the University of Trento.

 

This year’s theme, “Translating Ethnography,” explores how ethnographic knowledge moves across domains - from fieldwork to textwork, from personal experience to collective understanding, and from academia to everyday social and political life.

Key contributors include:

• Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University)

• Dvora Yanow (Wageningen University)

• Daniel Miller (University College London)

 

This long-running Winter School offers an inspiring environment for reflection, learning and exchange. We warmly encourage students, early-career researchers and ethnographers interested in ethnographic practice to apply and join this vibrant programme.

 

More information and application details:
https://eventi.unitn.it/en/international-winter-school-ethnography

Date: October 11, 2024
Location: Hybrid symposium, hosted by UHasselt

 

The REWORLDING Kick-off Event marked the official start of our doctoral network - and a moment of shared reflection and exchange. With 186 participants joining from across Europe, the symposium brought together all project partners, doctoral candidates, researchers, and students from the ARK Faculty. The event set the tone for REWORLDING’s interdisciplinary journey into participatory design and socio-environmental transformation.

 

The symposium opened with two keynote lectures that sparked lively discussion and critical thinking:

 

• dr. Michelle Bastian (University of Edinburgh) presented “Re-weaving Shared Temporalities with Local Ecologies”. She explored how climate change disrupts the seasonal rhythms that connect human and more-than-human worlds. Through the lens of phenology - the study of natural cycles - dr. Bastian invited us to rethink time, ecology, and participation. She challenged extractive modes of citizen science and argued for more empathetic, participatory approaches that honour lived experiences and local ecologies, contributing to ‘more-than-human’ forms of collaboration.

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• Studio Plastique (Archibald Godts) followed with “Design as a Tool for Systemic Change”. Their lecture highlighted how design can act as a critical and practical tool to transform the systems underpinning daily life. Moving beyond aesthetics, Studio Plastique examined how designers can engage with supply chains, material flows and infrastructures, encouraging a more reflective, ethical and systemic understanding of making.

 

Each keynote was followed by mini-lectures and debates led by REWORLDING supervisors and partners, deepening the conversation on participatory design, ecological temporality, and cross-sector collaboration. These exchanges laid the foundation for REWORLDING’s shared commitment to research that connects design, environment and society.

 

Stay tuned for upcoming events and future reflections as REWORLDING continues to grow.