I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be presenting at Pollen2026: Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The Stories of Political Ecology, held in Barcelona, Spain, 29 June–3 July 2026.
My presentation, “Listening as Eco-political Sensing,” is part of the panel “From Worldviews to Worldsenses: Towards a Sensorial Political Ecology” (P096), convened by Arnim Scheidel, Roberto Cantoni, Naomi Millner, María Heras, Nathan Clay, and Elissa Dickson. The panel asks what stories of power, justice, and resistance emerge when environmental struggles are understood not only through what is seen, but through what is heard, tasted, smelled, and touched. My session takes place Friday 3 July.
My contribution is a participatory session that treats listening not as passive detection but as a dialectical, collective, and imaginative act. Using contact microphones, phones, and sensors, participants engage in a series of playful, critical exercises drawing on pareidolia, Diana Deutsch’s phantom words, and historical accounts of voice-hearing in resonance with church bells (Schafer; Truax). I propose transception—the co-production of meaning through transmission and reception—as a method for sensing, and explore how “eco-sensing” can make gradual and convulsive ecological transformations audible. The aim is to show how embodied listening might reclaim technologies from enclosure and inspire new forms of kinship and ecological understanding.
Full panel details are available in the conference program.