Ontoepistemic Design understands humans as participants within larger ecologies of knowing.

Inspired by Michel Serres’ mediation ontology, John Law and Anne Marie Mol’s accounts of multiplicity, Bruno Latour’s curatorial experimentation, Donna Haraway’s cyborg tentacularities, Lucy Suchman’s situated plans for action, Michael Shanks’ process-relational archaeology, Silvia Gherardi’s practice-based organization studies, Andrew Pickering’s revitalised posthumanist cybernetics, Jane Bennett’s vibrant matter, Karen Barad’s agential realism, and Gregory Bateson’s ecological thinking, the programme approaches learning systems as distributed systems extending across humans, other organisms, technologies, materials and environments.

This opens questions about more-than-human epistemics.

How do plants, fungi, dogs, octopuses and forests participate in practices of knowing?

How do human and more-than-human forms of sense-making become entangled?

How might education cultivate the capacity to learn with, rather than merely about, the planet?

When I think about learning systems, I think of the world itself as a learning system.