Planetary Planning Podcast

In this episode, we speak with Emīlija Vaselova , Doctoral researcher in Multispecies Design at Aalto University, Finland, about her fascinating experiences in designing with Nature, in the truest sense of the word . She has worked for many years at expanding the definition of a “stakeholder” to include more-than-humans, in desin and planning practice and research, even while not losing sight of t...

In this - double-themed and thus somewhat longer - episode, we speak with Philippe van Parijs , Belgian political philosopher and political economist. We discuss both basic income and linguistic justice , neither of which might immediately seem logical themes for this podcast, especially compared to the themes discussed so far. However, we want to challenge our listeners to see the connections, be...

This episode is the first in a series of more-than-human interviews Susa and I have planned for this podcast. Every third episode will be one of these. In these episodes, we do our best to give a little space for a more-than-human to “speak”, and discuss a little about the context and about what messages we can read into this. We try to listen, but of course our own human capacities and patterns o...

In this episode, we explore the topic of more-than-human planning with Jonathan Metzger , Professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Jonathan is a truly transdisciplinary scholar, connecting Planning Studies, Human Geography, STS (Science- and Technology Studies) and Organizational Studies. He studies various angles of decision-making concerning complex environmental issues – generally wi...

In this episode, we explore Solarpunk imaginaries , and how they can inspire planetary planning, with Dr. Phoebe Wagner - writer, editor, and academic working at the intersection of climate change and speculative fiction. Their academic research explores how the predictive futures unintentionally imagined in speculative fiction can inspire new systems of adaptation and transformation during the cl...

During this episode, Susa and Kim present the Planetary Planning Podcast, and their own motivations for entering into this exciting endeavour. We are thrilled to launch the Podcast with this introduction! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit planetaryplanning.substack.com