Experimental Ecologies

An event by the LEAP Lab. “The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world … it is also the end of a way of knowing the world.” — Dougald Hine, At Work in the Ruins (2023) During a summer marked by stories of wildfires, flash floods, drought, homes lost and landscapes transformed, climate extremes have never felt closer. We are reminded that home is neither fixed nor guaranteed, and neither are the stories we tell about it. When places change, their stories change with them. What is remembered, what is lost, what needs to be told and who, or what, gets to tell it? Places hold stories of origin, belonging and who we might yet become; and, in turn, stories are a kind of intellectual architecture through which we make sense of place. So what does it mean to belong, to dwell and