Reimagining Territorial Regeneration through Multispecies and Post-Anthropocentric Urbanism

Asma Mehan, Asst. Professor

This session foregrounds an expanded understanding of territorial regeneration that moves beyond traditional human-centric paradigms to explore multispecies entanglements, ecological metabolisms, and post-Anthropocentric urbanisms. Rooted in critical spatial theory, environmental history, and design practice, the session interrogates how conventional frameworks of urban development and planning — grounded in extraction, segregation, and control — have reached conceptual limits in addressing intersecting planetary crises. By centering relational assemblages that integrate more-than-human agents, care protocols, and hybrid human–ecological–machine intelligences, we investigate how territories can be reconceptualised as living systems constituted through networks of ecological, social, and cultural relations. The session seeks contributions that articulate how multispecies coexistence, circular resource flows, and post-Anthropocentric imaginaries can reshape spatial practices for more equitable and resilient futures. We invite theoretical, historical, and empirically grounded papers that consider how spatial design, policy, and governance might be redefined through regenerative frameworks that emphasize co-evolution, reciprocity, and metabolic interdependencies. By bridging environmental humanities, urban studies, and critical geography, this session aims to generate new dialogues on how diverse spatial practices can advance territorial regeneration in contexts of ecological uncertainty, social injustice, and technological transformation.

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 Presented in Session 13. Environment, Justice, and Land