On the Usefulness of Modern Animism: Co-Creating Architecture with Soils as Ontopolitical Practice

In opposition to the general understanding of animism as an irrational religious set beliefs, the—secular—modern embodied in this practice built and grown architecture is operative. It conceives places—ecosystems—as beings with agency that we garden nurture express their resilience. a useful ontology for ecological practice; architectural ontopolitical; it co-creates common world. At recent symposium, number projects were presented soils give voice these earthly beings, method was write letter from them me. This first response article forms beginning animistic correspondence. The medium places reader pluriverse, between multiple voices various “actants.” text isomorphic dialogue earthy practice. both societal awareness—empathy care—towards fragmentary ecosystemic research conceive them, our relationship.