More-Than-Human Intelligence workshop

The More-Than-Human Intelligence is a hands-on workshop led by the Symbiotic Intelligence collective that explores intelligence as a collective phenomenon rather than an individual trait.

Through practical experiments with mycelium cultivation, the workshop investigates intelligence as an emergent property arising from interconnected systems of humans, more-than-human entities, and machines. Participants will work directly with living mycelium, creating their own seeded networks while critically rethinking dominant evolutionary narratives embedded in Western artificial intelligence. The workshop proposes a shift away from individualised, anthropocentric models of intelligence towards a symbiotic understanding shaped by encounter, cooperation, interdependence, and co-evolution. Symbiotic Intelligence (SI) is an artist collective founded by Dr Shira Wachsmann and Dr John Wild. SI creates immersive installations that foster encounters challenging anthropocentric hierarchies by exploring intelligence as a co-constituted, emergent process, one that foregrounds multispecies encounters and synergistic ontologies. sign up here

What to expect:
Multi-disciplinary