July Issue

The creatures that inhabit this issue may be pariahs of cuteness, but we humans owe them debts of gratitude—and kindness. In the words of Donna Haraway, “Kin are unfamiliar (outside what we thought was family or gens), uncanny, haunting, active.” In Interspecies, meet your kin.

Architect Joyce Hwang considers both humans and animals her clients. To support the population of urban bats in her hometown of Buffalo, New York, she built Bat Tower—a spectacular apartment building for the winged creatures of the night⟶

Sometimes an amphibian can dictate the course of your life. Writer Alison McCook shares how the life—and death—of Friggles the Frog made her into a science journalist⟶

Creative technologists Tin & Ed explain how the otherworldly flora and fauna of Australia inspire their outrageous and hallucinatory art installations⟶

Modern medicine and life science owe infinite debt to the rat. Editor Lisa Margonelli and bioartist Kathy High explore how Kathy’s live rat exhibition centered empathy in an entangled laboratory relationship⟶

We asked the BDC Community to predict futures where the boundaries between humans and nonhumans have blurred. Meet the human-animal-plant hybrids they imagined⟶

Issue 8 Masthead