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Our Multispecies Constitution Project is a collaboration between the Planetary and Future Humans Themes. Launched in 2023, it entails an innovative exercise—drafting a speculative constitution that includes humans and non-humans as political subjects. We want to create a language that centers multispecies mutualism rather than human exceptionalism, and collective intelligences rather than individualized human knowledge. Led by Jonathan Blake and Claire Isabel Webb, the Multispecies Constitution Project convenes philosophers, constitutional scholars, scientists, and artists, including BI Fellows, to collaborate across their disciplines. It will reflect the state-of-the-art knowledge on more-than-human ways of being, the design of inclusive and effective political institutions that span the local and the planetary, and methods for listening to and translating more-than-human voices. Animating questions include: The project avoids the debates about the rights of nature hashed out in law a

Berggruen Institute The Multispecies Constitution Project Our Multispecies Constitution Project is a collaboration between the Planetary and Future Humans Themes. Launched in 2023, it entails an innovative exercise—drafting a speculative constitution that includes humans and non-humans as political subjects. We want to create a language that centers multispecies mutualism rather than human exceptionalism, and collective intelligences rather than individualized human knowledge. Led by Jonathan Blake and Claire Isabel Webb, the Multispecies Constitution Project convenes philosophers, constitutio

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