Tender Radio, Spring Seminars, and Relational Pedagogies

The Institute for Postnatural Studies continues to develop research, pedagogical, and publishing initiatives that explore postnature as a framework for collective inquiry.

We are pleased to share some recent highlights and upcoming activities with our community.

Launch of Tender Radio

Tender Radio is now live on our website. Conceived as both a platform and a research methodology, it places radiophonic practices, sound art, and listening at the center of knowledge production.

At IPS, we understand collective audio practices and experimental sound pieces as tools to imagine different worlds and possible futures by engaging senses beyond the visual. Through these practices, Tender Radio explores the emotional, relational, and oral dimensions of knowledge sharing beyond text-based academic formats.

Spring 2026 Online Seminars

Registrations are now open for our upcoming spring programs, conceived as spaces for critical inquiry into ecological transformation, materiality, and postnatural thought.

Water Ecologies ~ Melting is a four-session seminar that dives into the political, ecological, and aesthetic implications of a melting planet.

How does the loss of glaciers and ice caps resonate with the expansion of extractive technologies, AI infrastructures, and shifting sovereignties in a world marked by renewed imperialism?

Across four sessions, participants will explore emerging sciences from frozen ecosystems, the ecologies of melting ice, geopolitical reconfigurations in Arctic and Antarctic regions, and artistic practices that invite us to defend, mourn, and listen to disappearing ice worlds. The seminar approaches melting as a political condition, an atmospheric transformation, and a way to sense how human and more-than-human communities reaffirm life under these conditions.

Led by Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano
With guest speakers Marco Tedesco, Daniela Portella Sampaio, and Jana Winderen

Wednesdays, April 15 – May 6, 2026
6:00 – 8:00 PM (CEST) · Online · 4 sessions

What if nature as we know it no longer exists? What if future ecologies are co-created by humans, technologies, and other-than-human actors? What if caring for the planet requires imagining new forms of coexistence, listening, and sensing?

After five years of research and academic experimentation, this seminar returns to the foundational question that first brought IPS into being: What is postnature?

Designed for participants working across art, design, philosophy, science, and technology, the program offers essential conceptual tools to navigate ecological uncertainty and contemporary urgencies. Through theory, case studies, and collective discussion, participants will revisit core frameworks of postnatural thinking and explore how new ecological imaginaries can be articulated today.

Led by Gabriel Alonso and Yuri Tuma

Tuesdays, April 14 – May 5, 2026
6:00 – 8:00 PM (CEST) · Online · 4 sessions

Early Bird fees are available until February 15.

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Connections as Method: Relational Pedagogies and Participatory Spatial Practice

Over the past year, IPS has been engaged in a long-term research collaboration exploring independent architectural learning, relational pedagogies, and participatory spatial practices.

Developed through in-person laboratories, site-specific research, and collective experimentation, this project investigated how learning environments and institutional structures can be reimagined through care-based, situated, and collaborative approaches.

The process culminated in a collective publication and a set of pedagogical tools, extending IPS’s ongoing inquiry into how spatial practices, education, and knowledge production can be articulated as shared and relational processes.

Compost Reader vol. I — Digital Edition

Following the sell-out of the printed edition, Compost Reader vol. I is now available in digital format.

You can now Following the sell-out of the printed edition, Compost Reader vol. I is now available in digital format.

We are pleased to share a new PDF edition of our first and much-loved publication. This digital release allows readers to continue engaging with the book after the physical edition has sold out, while also exploring our wider editorial catalogue.

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Thank you for being part of this growing community and for accompanying IPS in its ongoing explorations.

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