Planetary Planning Podcast

The text below is chiefly the transcription of the audio, so feel free to use the format you prefer - reading or listening. We’ll be back with the regular episodes in September! ** In this episode, I want to think with you about language , and its role in what we think matters, in which ways. In the past months, I have studied and read on the topic a bit, albeit more as a curious reader than a str...

This episode brings you a very rich conversation with Elisa Schramm , about what happens when people try in fundamental ways to question their relationship with and impact on more-than-humans or non-humans . Elisa, as she herself puts it, is a “human geographer interested in processes of transformation towards more sustainable and just futures, with a focus on everyday practices, especially around...

In this episode I speak with Josefine Fokdal , a Danish Architect, scholar, editor and facilitator based in Berlin, Germany. She works at the intersection of housing, urban development, and transformative design . She has worked extensively in academic contexts, including leadership roles, teaching and interdisciplinary collaboration, and as a consultant for international institutions. Topics she...

In this episode, I speak with Brais Suárez Eiroa , a researcher working at the intersection of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology , with a particular focus on post-growth transitions. He is currently a member of the Post-Growth Innovation Lab at the University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain)and a collaborator at the Research Centre for Territory, Transport and Environment at the University of Por...

In this episode, we hear from Ania Rzymyskiewicz , a visual communication designer, facilitator and creative strategist, who helps us imagine what a more planetary future could really look like, and what matters when we think about this. Ania’s work aims to help organizations turn ideas into purpose-driven, clarity-led action. Her work blends process facilitation with regenerative design principle...

In this episode, Claudia Fernandez de Cordoba Farini joins us for an in-depth conversation about “ Living Imaginaries ”, how we can access alternative imaginaries that include more-than-humans, and several very concrete examples to ground this. Claudia is founder of “ Living Imaginaries ”, a social enterprise that combines bold imagination with grounded pathways for structural change. The enterpri...

In this episode, we hear from Rui Monteiro , and especially his experience working with the RioNeiva Environmental NGO . He tells us about this NGO, its origins in society and the local context of the northern coast of Portugal, and how the association evolved over time in its continued quest to ensure the environmental and social sustainability in the area, handling various emerging challenges an...

This is a different episode from the usual ones. Here I’m the one sharing some insights and ideas from my own research project, the EU-MSCA-funded MobileWorlds Research Project , based at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and mentored by Prof. Wendy Tan . Most importantly, I share here some of the core ideas that intersect between the Planetary Planning Podcast and the MobileWorlds...

In this episode, we hear from Sharon Sand. Sharon is an Urban Planner focused on climate change adaptation, protecting biodiversity, and providing equitable access to nature, parks and green schoolyards. She is on the Government Affairs team as Public Grants Program Senior Manager for Trust for Public Land in California (USA) to obtain public funding for land conservation and urban park projects i...

In this episode, Mariko O. Thomas and Melissa M. Parks join us to share some of their insights on plant communication , and from and process of writing the book “ Storying Plant Communication. More-than-Human Relationships in New Mexico ”, available for pre-order now, and to be published in October. As the book description explains, the book “explores the narrative accounts of southwestern herbali...

In this episode, Edda Bild shares insights on human and more-than-human sounds , and which of these are considered more positively, versus which tend to be considered “noise” . Edda currently works as post-doctoral research associate at the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto, Canada, where she focuses on topics around occupational health and safety, like the newcomer experience in the workpl...

In this episode, Subina Shrestha , Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Network for Equity in Sustainable Transition (CERC NEST) at the University of Toronto Scarborough in Canada, shares her insights about how the field of logistics is changing spaces, human relations, and more - and especially through the increasing dominance of more-than-human, or perhaps rather: less-than-human, digital technol...

In this episode, we speak with Liz Challinor , researcher in anthropology at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) of the New University of Lisbon, as well as fiction and poetry writer . She shares her reflections on categories along which we see others - and ourselves - and how it is often forgotten that we have multiple identities, when in fact this is crucial. In fact, creating connect...

This episode is a conversation with António Ferreira , multidisciplinary researcher and writer on themes as varied and interconnected as degrowth/post-growth, urban and regional planning, mobilities and transport, critical innovation and digitalisation studies, and more. António works as principal researcher at CITTA, Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment, at the University of Porto. In...

In this episode, we speak with Jamie Wang , urban environmental humanities scholar, editor and poet. She works as Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong, and is editor of the journal Feminist Review . Jamie has recently published the book Reimagining the More-Than-Human City. Stories from Singapore , and we discuss...

In this episode, we speak with Olivia Bina , Senior Researcher at the Instituto de de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa (ICS - Institute of Social Sciences University of Lisbon), and Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). We delve chiefly into three points with her, each fascinating angles on how a “nature”-human relationship can be questioned. First, we broach the theme of i...

In this super-short episode, we share two quotes by David Graeber , which are mentioned and discussed in the collection of essays “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…”, edited by Nika Dubrovsky and published in 2024 (among other places where the quotes have previously been published). As an anthropologist and activist for social justice, David Graeber focused his work chiefly on human relation...

In this episode, we speak with Isabelle Doucet , Professor of theory and history of architecture at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. She here reflects on multi-species perspectives and social and environmental justice. I, Kim, met her at the IRS Academy in Berlin last spring, and am very glad I subsequently asked her to come on the podcast. This episode is a fascinating exploration into...

*note: we apologize for a relatively bad sound quality. We suggest the use of the accompanying transcript to better be able to follow. We hope you can thus nevertheless enjoy this insightful conversation!* During this episode, Jan Visser shares his views on “scientific” and caring mindsets , about which he has learned much through his various transdisciplinary experiences. We begin with a definiti...

In this episode, we speak with Matti Kuittinen , Professor of Sustainable Construction at Aalto University in Finland. We begin with an exploration of the role of construction industries as well as the planning of construction and land-use in the breaching of several planetary boundaries - taking the opportunity to dive a little deeper into what those boundaries are, as well. Matti reveals how con...

In this episode, we speak with Ralf Syring , expert in decolonial and solidarity work and later so-called “international development” in the African and Central American continents. He studied theology, sociology and medicine , and is an avid reader of fiction and non-fiction on the most diverse subjects - all of which have helped to inform the conversation we share here. The episode takes us thro...

This brief introduction is to welcome you all back to the podcast after the summer break, and to very briefly introduce the podcast to any newcomers. A longer introduction can be found in the first episode, and we welcome everyone to go back and listen to any previous episodes, as they continue to be relevant! Immediately after this introduction, you’ll also find the next episode, with Ralf Syring...

In this last episode before our summer break, Susa and Kim explore various more-than-human voices in Coimbra (Portugal), Berlin (Germany), and Matosinhos (Portugal). By doing so, we touch on various types of symbiosis between humans and more-than-humans in cities, and when they are more or less toxic . We also reflect on whether more-than-humans are always coming from “nature”, or whether they mig...

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...