Explore Multispecies Design & AI Interactions, with us:
Crystal Campbell
Corporate Service Designer, gone wild.
Saskia Vano
OG Elder, Climate Scientist, Ecologist.
Design with the More-than-Human: Explore AI, Ecology, and Entangled Futures
What becomes possible when your practice entangles with forests, microbes, machines, and more?
This course invites you to rethink your role and practice in a world teeming with life, systems, and intelligences beyond the human.
As AI and ecological crises reshape our present and future, we’ll explore multispecies design and more-than-human relationships to challenge extractive ways of thinking; those that treat living systems as resources to be used, controlled, or exploited.
Deepening your understanding of multispecies interactions and more-than-human intelligences opens new pathways for ethical, ecological, and earth-aligned behaviours and decisions that are both personal and collective.
Our world is more-than-human. AI and design are moving beyond human-centered approaches, and you're invited to join us for that transformation!
What you’ll learn
Go beyond human-centered, and learn how multispecies design, ecology and AI can,
You'll create speculative and poetic design explorations, using guided provocations.
You’ll experiment with multispecies ethnography, ecological thinking, embodied inquiry.
You'll explore narrative techniques to sense, imagine, and co-design with more-than-human beings.
Deepens your sensory and emotional literacy, learning to listen, notice and attune to more-than-humans.
Transforms your ways of knowing and designing by integrating intuition, ecology and systems thinking into your practice.
Re-roots you in reciprocity and care; designing for kinship, regenerating relationships, and cultivating futures of mutual thriving.
You’ll engage with multispecies and machine intelligences: through our session discussions and creative practice.
You'll reflect on your role as a designer and practice by using ecology, myth, speculative methods and embodied design.
You’ll explore how myth, embodiment, ecology, and speculation can reshape your purpose and position in the design ecosystem.
Learn directly from Crystal & Saskia
Crystal Campbell
Story Weaver & Corporate Service Designer gone wild.
Saskia Vano
OG Elder, Climate Scientist & Eco-psychologist
Who this course is for
You’re ready to examine and challenge human-centered habits and explore design as a tool for justice, ecology, kinship, and care.
You value deep dialogue, lived experience, and rich co-creation: not passive lectures or step-by-step templates.
You use design methods to shape systems, services, technologies, or change in your work, even if you’re not a designer by title.
Prerequisites
Willingness to challenge your assumptions
Be open to challenging your assumptions, especially around human dominance, technology, systems, science and the role of design.
Respect for diverse perspectives and lived experiences
This space depends on mutual respect and care. You'll learn alongside people with different backgrounds, identities, and ways of knowing.
Basic familiarity with design thinking
Have at least a beginner-level familiarity with design thinking, design research, or creative problem-solving methods.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Crystal Campbell & Saskia Vano in a real-time, interactive format.
1:1 Individual Mentorship (2x sessions worth $250)
Receive 2× 30min private 1:1 mentorship sessions, with each instructor, offering space to explore personal topics related to the course.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Maven Guarantee
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Course syllabus
16 lessons • 6 projects
Week 1
Inner Worlds
Ecological Citizenship
Week 2
Ecological Intelligence
Schedule
Live sessions
1 hr / week
Projects
1-3 hrs / week
Optional async content
1 hr / week