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Future Natures explores the global terrain and evolving ecologies of commoning and enclosure.

Through stories, arts and research, we aim to delve deeply to explore these contested ecologies – involving complex and evolving relationships between people, technology and our non-human environments – and ask what they mean and how they shape possibilities for imagining and enacting plural futures and plural natures through action and struggle in the present.

In the process, we aim to build bridges, activate learning, and amplify voices across diverse histories, spaces and struggles to defend the commons, past and present.

Daniel Wortel-London is a Policy Specialist at the Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy. He has served as Knowledge Co-Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance and Research Coordinator for the Civworld project at Demos. He earned his Ph.D. in History from New York University, where he wrote numerous articles along with his dissertation, retitled “The Menace of Prosperity” for publication by the University of Chicago Press.

Camille is a tech worker, a mom, an occasional community organizer, and a budding organizational death doula. She is a Customer Experience leader in the tech industry, where she advocates for users and customers, builds partnerships, and then shares that hard-earned wisdom as a speaker at conferences.

When she is not working or raging against the machine (sometimes the same thing), Camille loves cooking, weight-lifting, traveling, looking at art, and dancing to techno and house music.

Natalie Holmes is a freelance writer and editor working in the fields of regenerative economics and humanitarian support & solidarity. She is the managing editor of Post Growth Perspectives, the online publication of the Post Growth Institute.

Bernard Marszalek, is a worker cooperative activist in the SF Bay area and a member of a printing collective for seventeen years. His essays appear at https://ztangi.org.

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St. Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Collective Diaspora is a membership-based organization of Black cooperatives and Black-led cooperative support organizations from across the African diaspora.

We are weaving together a transnational Black cooperative support system to challenge the economic isolation faced by Black communities and the extraction of Black wealth that has been taking place in different forms since the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

By deepening our connections and sharing resources, we make our cooperatives and organizations, and in turn our communities, stronger and more resilient.