Our project facilitates perception of our world as symbiotic and interdependent. Drawing on the rhizome (Deleuze and Guattari) and Lynn Margulis’ holobiont, the museum helps reorient towards the planet and its future. Locations are ravaged: former mining sites, monocultures, overfished seas. If museums are “the cultural conscience of the nations”, they should create more holistic, co-evolutionary realm, with site as protagonist, and imagined “species hierarchies” collapsed.
Museum is co-administered by agents inhabiting it. Visitors learn interspecies humility, and interdependency. The relationships and knowledge they create serve the common planetary survival. Our concept can be adapted from a toolkit for various sites, with respect to their particular realities, ecosystems, and communities. We’d like to think of it as a light, replicable infrastructure, allowing zooming into the deep ecologies of our surroundings, contemplation, and of “making kin” with beings living and not-living.