Bestiary of a Wounded Planet

Bestiary of a Wounded Planet is an upcoming episodic docufiction series in which each episode tells the story of a different mythical creature who has been harmed by climate change or habitat loss, or is themselves a manifestation of some force of environmental destruction. A multimodal transmedia project involving hyperlocal communities, the production of each episode will be entangled with hyperlocal ecologies, the creative process nourishing resilience, reciprocity, relinquishment, and reconciliation - The four "R's" of deep adaptation.

By mixing documentary elements examining environmental issues with moments of speculative fabulation - stories of human communities interacting with mythological beings who embody ongoing ecological changes - the series will question underacknowledged effects of anthropogenic global heating and biodiversity loss, trouble our current relations to our environment, and illuminate pathways of transformative action. In the process, community actions towards creating refuge and restoring thriving interdependent ecologies will be enacted and woven into hyperlocal mythologies.

In creating accessible stories-as-tools-for-thinking, in bringing to life contemporary mythologies through stories of mythical creatures as approachable interfaces for anthropocene hyperobjects, the series will create frameworks for local collaborators and remote audiences to sit and walk with the questions:

• What is our relationship to the places we inhabit, the ecologies we co-create together with our more-than human kin?

• How can the stories we think with acknowledge our agency and complicity?

• How can we reshape our relations to summon thriving worlds?