This is a collective space for reflecting about the diverse and interconnected ways in which we live with the more-than-human world during this time of awakening. Join this Earth Community by sharing your story in the living archive!
Playfulness is a powerful means of inviting new forms of curiosity, interaction, care and storytelling. We have prepared a variety of activities which serve as prompts to inspire and provoke new ways of thinking about our shared environment, to stimulate curiosity and awe, and to attend to often ignored forms of shared life.
Please consider sharing your experiences on the platform. Untoldstories.site is a space for sharing insights and experiences with others and to stimulate inspiration and dialogue about our shared worlds.
Check out our prompts, make house bestiaries, write letters to plants, compose audio portraits of your worlds!
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GET TO KNOW YOUR BEASTS
HOUSE BESTIARIES
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HOW TO IDENTIFY A HOUSE BEAST?
If spotted would you sweep, clean, vacuum, pull-out, weed-out, fumigate, trap or otherwise eradicate from your home?
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HAS THE BEAST MADE ITSELF AT HOME?
INVASIVE
If spotted would you sweep, clean, vacuum, pull-out, weed-out, fumigate, trap or otherwise eradicate from your home?
TO INTRUDE
If spotted would you sweep, clean, vacuum, pull-out, weed-out, fumigate, trap or otherwise eradicate from your home?
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How to spot the wild ones
Walk around your house paying special attention to corners, edges and dark nookes.
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Get to know the Nature of the Beast
You can download inaturalist and Picture This apps on your cellphone to find out a bit more about what kind of beasts these intruders are.
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Pay attention to how these wild creatures make themselves at home in your house.
LISTEN
SMELL
WATCH
You can download inaturalist and Picture This apps on your cellphone to find out a bit more about what kind of beasts these intruders are.
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Watch for patterns.
How do these creatures dwell and live in your home?
How do these beast share their dens with other creatures?
What do they need to live? Do you need them?
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Gather Evidence
TAKE PICTURES
TAKE NOTES OR DRAW
MAKE AUDIO RECOARDINGS
The more detail you’re able to capture, the better—we often don’t know what is most interesting or important about an observation until much later. Recording, in any format, is always a way of paying attention and of giving oneself to the possibility that these beasts are worth thinking about.
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BE HOSPITABLE
INVASIVE
adjective
favorably receptive or open (usually followed by to)
characterized by or betokening warmth and generosity toward guests or strangers.
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Has your home become a space where
you dwell with numerous beasts?
Is it made up of homes within homes?
Have you made a friend or two?
Have you, per chance, become a beast?
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Share
To make your house beastiary follow these steps
You must create an account on Untoldstories.site
You can upload your notes, drawings, audio, pictures, and videos
Share your experience
Tell others about your homes and its inhabitants
Be as playful and creative as you want, this is your story and your shared home.
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We hope that in sharing your bestiary you will offer an opening to the diverse, wondrous worlds we share with other beings.
A bestiary, after all, is an opening into other kinds of worlds that begins by attending to the incredible interactions unfolding all around us, often entirely unnoticed. A bestiary is a collection of beings noticed and given to wonder.
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Walk around your house paying special attention to corners, edges and dark nookes.
A bestiary, after all, is an opening into other kinds of worlds that begins by attending to the incredible interactions unfolding all around us, often entirely unnoticed. A bestiary is a collection of beings noticed and given to wonder. 
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