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by Mirjam Steiger and Sierra Deutsch How can different knowledge systems be brought into conversation on equal footing when working towards transformative change? And how can principles for more relational and inclusive collaboration be translated into concrete research practices? At the World Biodiversity Forum (WBF) 2026 in Davos, the FIRI project hosted the workshop “Rethinking Human-Natures: Holding Indigenous Peoples’, practitioners’, and university researchers’ knowledg

In the FIRI project, one of our goals was to co-develop concrete approaches for fostering transformative, transdisciplinary collaboration—especially in initiatives that seek to re-visibilize human-nature relationships. Across the two workshops, we tried to articulate and define what we had been doing intuitively, deliberately, or experimentally throughout the project and identify important aspects to be included in any future initiatives. This resulted in a collaboratively

Integrating diverse knowledge systems is far from straightforward. The FIRI project confronted this challenge by testing, adapting, and...

Building a strong foundation for transdisciplinary collaboration means creating space for connection; in the case of FIRI not only...

How can we rethink relations among humans and the rest of nature in a way that doesn’t repeat colonial patterns? The FIRI project brought...