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Welcome to the Learning Non-Human glossary. Scroll down and side-to-side to explore our work and interest in the environment, the climate crisis and our relationship to the more-than-human world. From commissioned artworks to policy changes, our learning helps to transform everything we do.

Consider this web page a 'digital garden', an online space that documents the past, present, and future of the project and shares seeds of thoughts to be cultivated by you. Let's grow!

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Animal Agency (2020)

Uma Breakdown is an artist, writer and researcher who uses horror studies, feminist literature and queer role-playing games to create art. Play the downloadable game, Animal Agency, online and find out more about the concept ‘ahuman’ which inspired the creation of the artwork

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Exhibition

And Say the Animal Responded?

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Discover the exhibition online! Walk with the animals in a virtual tour and watch interviews with the artists as we explore the relationship between human and animal.

Ars Electronica

Festival

FACT: Ars Electronica Garden Liverpool

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Online and Offsite

Ars Electronica Garden x FACT presents four days of performances, conversations and tours about The Living Planet.

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Conference

Framework for Resilience

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Online

Join us for a series of online conversations inviting you to think about the world we are creating, destroying and the systems behind this.

Watch: Framework For Resilience

Rediscover Framework for Resilience, our series of online conversations that invite you to think about the world we are creating, destroying and the systems behind this.

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Podcast: Framework for Resilience

Listen back to Framework for Resilience, our series of online conversations that invite you to think about the world we are creating, destroying and the systems behind this.

by FACT

Artsformation Cover Image Framework for Resilience

In Conversation: Uma Breakdown and Lesley Taker

Uma Breakdown has made a visual novel in the form of a downloadable game for FACT Together, released earlier this week, called Animal Agency. Lesley, our Exhibitions Manager, had a chat with them about horror, critters, love, and how this commission altered Uma’s approach to world-building in the game space.

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Screenshot from Animal Agency 2020 by Uma Breakdown Image courtesy of the artist

Build Your Own Terrarium with Gregory Herbert

Learn how to build your own terrarium using recycled materials as artist Gregory Herbert shows us how to explore and celebrate the different varieties of micro-ecological systems that exist in our everyday life.

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Microecologies by Greg Herbert