"Nature’s Avatars" by Danilo Olivaz is an open-ended inquiry at the intersection of technology, art, and the different ways of being that exist in our world. It attempts to develop hybrid manifestations that can serve as an expression medium for beyond-human entities, understanding their sentience and rights to existence in our shared world.

With “The Spiritual Entities of the Kuikuro People”, Uryssé Kuikuro and Alekin Pazini want the world to know and respect another way of connection with nature. The project presents the vision of the Kuikuro People and the Spirits that surround them.

“I am Earth” by Abhinay "Renny" Thummaluru imagines a world of planetary diplomacy – one where we are aligned with nature, not in competition with it. It calls on us to move from domination to dialogue, from extraction to empathy. Imagine a time when we deeply listen to the Earth, to nature, to the silent signals already all around us? In the face of the climate crisis and global unrest, Abhinay Renny worked on this project to reflect our place, not at the top, but within the web of life. To stop resisting the flow of the Earth and begin moving in alignment with it.

"The Earth Speaks Back" by Francis Burger is a participatory diplomatic encounter that invites more-than-human beings, like trees, rivers, fungi, and ancestral stones, into political space through playful, ritual dialogue. Rather than teaching or debating, it creates conditions to feel presence and attune to voices, perceptions, and imaginations often silenced or rendered esoteric in dominant epistemic systems. Inspired by Joanna Macy and decolonial thought, the project challenges colonial and neurotypical norms of diplomacy by asking: What becomes possible when we truly listen and wonder beyond the human?

"The Soil Embassy" by Deepanjana Saha reimagines diplomacy by shifting it from sterile conference halls to living agroecosystems. Rooted in Indigenous knowledge and agroecological science, it envisions soil communities, fungi, owls, and farmers as co-negotiators of shared futures. By centering care, reciprocity, and regeneration, the project offers a prototype for multi-species diplomacy that grows policy directly from the ground up.

“Mapping Climate-Vulnerable Populations in Pará” by Ligia Anjos transforms public data about Pará, a state in the North of Brazil, into narrative maps, presenting a planetary diplomacy tool that gives voice to forests and vulnerable populations. Ligia Anjos decided to submit this project to share the powerful findings of this analysis and to demonstrate how data visualization can inspire more effective and targeted climate action, expanding the reach of fundamental academic research.

"Community-led Biomonitoring to Empower Citizens in Global Decision-Making" by Simona Weber (The Marine AI Consortium (MAC)) aims to empower coastal communities to own, monitor, and benefit from their marine resources through accessible biomonitoring technology and transparent data platforms. By democratizing access to cutting-edge environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis tools, MAC enables local communities such as fishers, indigenous groups, and youth to become scientific stewards of their own waters – generating valuable biodiversity data they control and can leverage for sustainable livelihoods, conservation funding, and policy advocacy. Our citizen science movement fosters both technical knowledge and understanding of human-ocean interconnections – providing the skills to make informed decisions and sustainably manage marine ecosystems.

"Drift of the Uncharted" by Ary-Yue Huang, Qin Qing, Wenzong Ma, and Bingyuan Wan is a robotic performance combined with expanded cinema, using climate prediction and landscape reconstruction to imagine a speculative world where contemporary urban landscapes experience future sea-level rise. A quadruped robot with an onboard projector serves as a rescue robot, simultaneously traversing both physical and virtual spaces, projecting the drowned cityscapes into the exhibition space. It is dedicated to mediating climate change – a hyperobject that transcends conventional scales of space and time into an experiential form – inviting new planetary imaginaries and modes of diplomacy beyond the human.

“Systems of Care in Mycelium Structures” by Sulamith Tamborriello is a long-term artistic experiment that explores the relationships between humans and non-human life forms, between individual care and collective responsibility, between self and other. Over the course of a year, a trans-species collaboration between Sulamith Tamborriell and a slime mould culture will develop—a process of codependency, symbiosis, and transformation.Through this project, Sulamith Tamborriello aims to initiate a dialogue on how art can reimagine trans-species relations and shift our understanding of diplomacy beyond the human.

“Imagining the Futures of Rights of Nature” by Lydia Dai, Beniamin Strzelecki, Genaro Matías Godoy González, Iqra Bano, and Pierre Mikhiel explores how embedding the Rights of Nature into international law and diplomacy could transform governance systems. Through a foresight process with over 30 experts and advocates, they co-created narratives that envision pathways from today’s property-based paradigm toward futures where ecosystems are recognized as legal and political subjects. The group decided to submit this project because it bridges legal innovation, foresight, and advocacy, and aims to offer an evolving platform to inspire and inform concrete action in global diplomacy.

“Planetary Diplomacy | Thinking with the Mangrove” by Yassine Rachidi is a project that examines the ecology of the mangroves of Lamu (Kenya) as both fascinating biotopes and living metaphors, exploring how their intricate ecosystems can inform alternative understandings of urban growth, treating water not merely as a resource but as a medium of relation and encounter. Through a three-part text series, the project reflects on the rhythms of tides, the reproductive lives of mangroves and coastal transformations that shape imaginaries of planetary relations that move beyond human-centered diplomacy.

“Museums for the More-than-Human” by Yelyzaveta Bezzub proposes an exhibition that reimagines the relationship between humans and nature. By symbolically exchanging their roles, the installation highlights the fragility of both and invites visitors to reflect on planetary interdependence. Yelyzaveta Bezzub submitted this proposal because she believes art can open new pathways for diplomacy and collective imagination.