My Green Grants project is the Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab, which is a small team of students, artists, ethnographers, and media designers who produce a podcast about climate change. We invite scientists, writers, and artists to talk about a particular organism, ecology or site that they study, and the interdisciplinary methods or tools that they’ve used or developed in the course of their research. We also discuss their teaching practices or how they engage others around difficult conversations about climate change. What makes our podcast different from other podcasts about climate change, I think, is that we are interested in giving voice to the human interviewee, as well as the thing or place that they study. So we aim to combine interviews with field recordings and experimental soundscapes to give listeners a more intimate and visceral sense of the liveliness of worlds outside. I’m interested in experimenting with ways of listening to nonhumans, or allowing animals, plants, microbes, water to speak alongside the human voice. 

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