Monday, 27 October 2025

Speculative Cosmologies: Imagining and Inhabiting Possible Worlds: 5 Living Worlds — Sustaining Possibility Across Scales

The previous posts traced relational world-construction, symbolic ecology, emergent ethics, and cosmogenic imagination. We now synthesize these threads into the practice of sustaining living worlds: actively maintaining, co-composing, and attuning relational fields of possibility across scales.

Key dynamics of sustaining living worlds:

  1. Integrated co-composition: Human, symbolic, technological, and ecological systems interact continuously, producing dynamic, resilient, and generative worlds.

  2. Ethical stewardship: Actions are guided by attentiveness to systemic coherence, relational resonance, and the preservation of open-ended potential.

  3. Multi-scale resonance: Local interventions ripple through social, ecological, planetary, and cosmogenic systems, shaping the unfolding of possibility across time and space.

Examples:

  • Collaborative governance and participatory design that sustain ecological, social, and symbolic systems over generations.

  • Artistic and narrative practices that cultivate collective imagination, resilience, and ethical engagement.

  • Technological and infrastructural systems designed for adaptability, iterative feedback, and relational tuning, supporting emergent coherence without imposing closure.

Sustaining living worlds reframes our role from passive inhabitant to active co-composer, integrating imagination, ethics, and relational practice. Possibility is not a fixed horizon; it is an ongoing, multi-scale symphony, continuously co-authored through attention, action, and ethical engagement.

Key move: from isolated interventions to integrated relational praxis; from action as outcome to continuous co-tuning of possibility; from human-centred stewardship to multi-scale, ethically attuned co-composition.

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