UNDERSTAND THE SYSTEM
Living World Relationship Index
We use the Living World Relationship Index and systems analysis with institutions to understand a community’s starting point and explore changes after an experience.
LIVING WORLD PLATFORMSCIENCE / EXPERIENCE / BIOCULTURES
Wellbeing for you.
Together,for the
living world.
Aralar Ecosystems connects science, lived experience and biocultural knowledge to help institutions create nature-based experiences for wellbeing. We bring places and communities together to explore new habits, care for the living world and share what we learn.
We need to change the way we relate with the living world.Inspired by the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit statement
Explore the living systemEverything connects.
Everything connects.
Where will you begin?
Select a thread to explore how people, communities and institutions can strengthen their relationship with the living world.
Read each building block’s full profile on the separate catalogue page. 10 building blocks
From your institution’s question
to an experience we create together.
One shared aim.
Three paths.
What we can create togetherUNDERSTAND. CO-CREATE. SHARE.
Choose the building blocks that matter to your place. We bring them into practice through three paths: understand, co-create and share what we learn.
CO-CREATE SOLUTIONS
Community & Institutional Experiences
Co-create wellbeing experiences with museums, cultural centres, schools, health and care organisations, companies, cities, universities, forest parks and other communities. Shape workshops, exhibitions, learning routes and nature-based invitations around your people and place.
Explore City LabSHARE MEANINGFUL STORIES
Mendien Ahotsa · Biocultures & People’s Voices
Connect communities through documentary, exhibitions, workshops and people’s own voices. Bring lived experience and biocultural knowledge into dialogue, respecting consent, local knowledge holders and the stories people choose to share.
Explore Documentary & StoriesCross-Pollinating
Network
Pokhara · Highlands · Tbilisi · Donostia · Berkeley · Colorado · Corcovado
Places for connection and shared learning. Markers indicate proposed locations, not confirmed institutional partnerships.
With the collaboration and interest of these universities
Gandaki University
Gandaki UniversityPokhara
Proposed connections and themes for discussion. Connections are open to universities, museums, cultural centres and other institutions.
Bring your place into the conversationCombine innovation systems, education and valuing the living world through shared questions, lived experiences and exchanges between places.
Understand the starting point → co-create an experience → share what we learn.These goals guide each proposal; specific contributions and evaluation are agreed with your institution.
Eight steps. Five layers. A framework for exploring our relationship with the living world through experience and reflection.
Explore the methodologyOur people. Our knowledge.
Itziar Insausti
Founder · anthropologist
Itziar studied anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and received European Union mentoring in nature-based solutions. Her research spans four continents, exploring different ecosystems and cultural perspectives. She brings that learning into experiences that strengthen our relationship with the living world.
Elli Gonzalez
Sustainability advisor · London
Elli collaborates with Aralar as a London-based sustainability advisor with 20 years of experience. Her background includes work with the United Nations. She brings an international sustainability perspective to institutional choices, wellbeing and care for the living world.
Bikash
University teacher · forestry & wildlife · Nepal
Bikash collaborates with Aralar through university teaching and expertise in Nepal’s forests and wildlife. His background connects the Institute of Forestry in Pokhara and research perspectives from Oslo. He brings ecological knowledge, community experience and learning into dialogue.
Institutional EnquiryCo-create your
Co-create your
next pathway.
For municipal councils, universities, museums, cultural centres and other institutions. Together, agree your community’s question, a place-based experience, delivery and evaluation.
- Municipal climate-refuge route design
- University Observatory and learning exchanges
- Museum and cultural-centre exhibitions and routes
- Mendien Ahotsa documentary and community dialogue
- Programmes for other institutions and communities