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Featuring open discussion and presentations, this edition of e for emergence will consider the ways art and science meet in the realm of imagination. Its topic is prompted by the granting, for the first time, of legal rights to an insect: in October 2025 the local government of Provincia de Satipo, Perú, accorded the Amazonian stingless bee the explicit right to exist. This local decision raises broader, global questions about how we understand nature, and how art and science might work together when established disciplinary models prove inadequate for conceptualising ecology in the ways we now need. 

Drawing on examples such as climate modelling, ecological research in Svalbard and current debates around global accountability, the meeting will probe the knowledge frameworks used to conceptualise and respond to ecological threat. In a rapidly changing environment, are the established paradigms sufficient, or do they need to yield to more creative approaches? 

e for emergence is a series of dialogues interrogating the intersections of technology, globalization, and environmental change. It is convened by a multiperspective group currently composed of artists Susanne M. Winterling, Rajat Mondal and climate scientist Kajsa Parding. It forms part of PRAKSIS Platform, a new initiative supporting artists and organisers to create dialogue and build community.