10. Zoöps: Governance for the Living with Klaas Kuitenbrouwer

Klaas Kuitenbrouwer is the director of the Zoönomic Institute in the Netherlands, one of the organisations with most experience in designing structures for organisational governance from a more-than-human viewpoint. They tend to the roots of the Zoöp movement, supporting organisations to become regenerative by adding a person with a special function: a Speaker for the Living. Klaas studied history at the University of Utrecht and has since the late 1990s worked at the intersections of culture, technology and ecology. A key element in his work is the intersection of different knowledge practices: technological, artistic, legal, scientific, and nonhuman. Currently he works as a senior researcher at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam and was responsible for – among other projects – the Garden of Machines (2015), 51Sprints (2016) and Gardening Mars (2017). He co-curated the Neuhaus Temporary Academy for more-than-human knowledge (2019), where he initiated the Zoöp project. A Zoöp is an organisation that collaborates with the other-than-humans in its operational sphere. Together they work on ecological regeneration and foster the emergence of a regenerative economy, or human-inclusive ecosystem. The Zoöp model can be adopted by all organisations.   https://zoop.earth/en/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328725000461