Noticing Otherwise:
Speculative Art for More-Than-Human Relations
How might we learn to notice—and make visible—the relations that exceed us?
Join us for the final workshop of our 3-part series exploring more-than-human worlds through speculative art-based methods.
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This final workshop brings together the creative outputs from the More-Than-Human workshop series, showcasing works developed through the “Planting Bloomsbury” and “Multispecies Heritage Co-Lab: A Smell Workshop” events.
Participants from previous workshops will share their drawings and sensory pieces, reflecting on how these practices have engaged with more-than-human worlds.
Building on these explorations, the workshop introduces speculative, art-based approaches to understanding human–nonhuman relations. Drawing on Anna Tsing’s (2015) arts of noticing, we will experiment with ways of attending to the overlooked, the ephemeral, and the entangled—temporarily setting aside human-centred frameworks to attune to other forms of presence and relation.
The session will conclude with a cyanotype workshop, where participants will create light-sensitive prints using natural materials found around Bloomsbury campus. Approached as a process of co-creation with light, time, and matter, cyanotype becomes a way of tracing encounters rather than representing them—inviting reflection on how more-than-human forces shape what becomes visible.
An invitation to notice, attune, and make with the more-than-human.
Date: 10 June, 2026
Time: 2 pm
Venue: Room 209, UCL Institute of Archaeology