Advancing the Value of Ethnography

EPIC2025 Session: More-Than-Human Intelligences: Crossing Human, Machine, and Ecosystem Boundaries

What happens when we recognize the sophisticated capabilities of ecosystems and multispecies assemblages? This session examines intelligence across boundaries and systems, showing how understanding these relationships leads to improved outcomes.

Date & Time

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | 
4:00 pm – 
5:30 pm 
Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00)
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | 
6:00 am – 
7:30 am 
Pacific Daylight Time (PDT, UTC−07:00)

Format

Virtual or livestreamed

Overview

What happens when we recognize the sophisticated capabilities of ecosystems and multispecies assemblages? This session examines intelligence across boundaries and systems, showing how understanding these relationships leads to improved outcomes. Presentations in this session:

  • Leveraging Collective Intelligence to Improve River and Coastal Health: Insights from England & Wales
  • Beyond Fetch: Rethinking Intelligence in Animals, AI, and Humans
  • Two Ethnographies of Holobiontic Intelligences in Hong Kong

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