Feral Worlding

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is situated somewhere between

Journal (academic) and journal (personal); it values friction, care, contradiction, and questions over polished outcomes.

is a publication platform for those working across and beyond biodesign - practitioners, academics, independent researchers, students, artists, DIY experimenters, and the curious. A quarterly, print-only magazine which engages in the critical conversations of those who are shaping the future of living systems with care, ethics, and creativity. FW was created to bridge the fragmented, often disconnected worlds of academic research, grassroots experimentation, speculative design, and collective inquiry.

FERAL WORLDING

OUR MISSION

we’re a platform serving ideas, passions, and potentials not accolades. FW priorities including untraditional voices for the field of biodesign. everyone shaping the future of living systems should be heard with ubiquitous equity.

AMPLIFY UNDER-HEARD VOICES

BRIDGE COMMUNITIES

blending rigorous thinking with hands-on experimentation, we foster dialogue across universities, wet/open labs, bio-hackers, community ecologists, speculative designers, urban planners, botanists, and indigenous communities, replicating nature’s interspecies necessary interrelations.

SUSTAIN CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS

biodesign is not just the "cool stuff” and sci-fi fantasies. We explore the field as one of deep care, ethical complexity, situated failures, and transformative potential. this is all-the-more critical in current days when the nature of the field is at risk of being co-opted for clout and greenwashing. we are committed to maintain inclusive dialogue helmed by feminist practices and decolonialism.

REMAIN FLUID & OPEN

FW embraces serendipity. Each issue leaves room for reader-driven content, unexpected formats, and rapid responses to emerging questions. not pretending to know all the fields array of forefronts, there is unrestricted potential as to what brilliant, feral contributions may arrive next.

BEYOND PUBLICATION

THE

PLUG INTO THE MYCELIAL NETWORK

CONNECTS, EVENTS, & OPEN CALLS

In an effort to build community beyond a remote publication. FW will host Gatherings, a network connect with unique events and discussions celebrating the launch of the latest issue amongst fellow worlders.

BEYOND
PUBLICATION

THE

***the first issue(!)

‘STAYING WITH THE TROUBLE’

ISSUE 01

SUBMISSIONS

subject-line should be {LAST NAME} - {TITLE}

submissions@feral-worlding.xyz

EDITORS NOTE

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE

30.08.2025

NOTIFICATION DATE

06.09.2025

PUBLICATION DATE

07.11.2025

OPEN CALL

FORMATTING

_all articles will be a two-page spread (150x230mm/page)
_spread options: 750 words [max] with images - OR - 1200 words [max] text only
_please note we are open to formatting suggestions for alternative publication types [ie. poetry, photo journalism, collage, etc.]
_we go through a peer review process and may suggest some edits to be done

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COMING SOON

TEXT & IMAGE SUBMISSIONS

short or long essays (fiction (futuring) and non-fiction), visual essays, photo spreads, diagrams, protocols, image-text hybrids,

EXPERIMENTAL WORKS

diy manuals, speculative blueprints, illustrated field notes, temporal experiments, rituals, or performance documentation,

THEORY & PRACTICE

accessible, reflective pieces on care, equity, activism, law, policy, society, multi-species action, and the ethical responsibilities of working with the living,

INTERVIEWS & DIALOGUES

conversations with artists, scientists, activists, and thinkers at the edge of biodesign, ecology, and politics,

FIELD REPORTS

dispatches from labs, forests, workshops, ruins, kitchens, or anywhere living-system practices are unfolding,

UNFORESEEN POSSIBILITIES

FW is committed to growing with our community. we aim to be adaptable to the ideas and formats we haven’t imagined yet. challenge the boundaries of what a magazine can hold. imagine a publication that harnesses the wild. enact rewilding: the magazine can reinvent itself, its format and how the reader interacts with it each issue. we embrace nature’s enigmatism.