Companion Spaces is a spatial and narrative platform that explores alternative ways of living with more-than-human worlds. It responds to the dominant urban narratives that prioritise human needs, efficiency, and control, often overlooking the complex relationships that already shape life in and beyond our cities. Rather than opposing urban life, Companion Spaces' objective is to expand how we imagine it.

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Inspired by Donna Haraway’s Companion Species theory, the project understands cities as shared environments shaped through ongoing, co-evolving relationships between humans and non-human beings. Within fragmented, human-centred landscapes, these entangled worlds persist, adapt, and negotiate space. Companion Spaces tells stories that make these relationships visible, shifting attention from isolated human activity toward multispecies presence, movement, and care.

 

Through spatial practices, observations, and narratives, Companion Spaces blur the boundaries between the urban and the wild. It supports habitats, encounters, and forms of coexistence that acknowledge interdependence rather than dominance. These spaces do not aim to restore a lost nature, but to recognise the more-than-human worlds already entangled within contemporary urban spaces.

 

In this sense, Companion Spaces offers an alternative narrative for urban futures. One where human life is enriched, not diminished, by shared worlds. One that invites co-worlding, reciprocity, and care. Following the words of George Monbiot on rewilding, Companion Spaces is not about abandoning civilisation but about enhancing it, “loving not man the less, but Nature more.”

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