Speculative tales: world-building methodologies for more-than-humans as story makers

For the more-than-human (other sentient creatures and other living organisms the very existence and core onto-epistemic (Barad, 2007) assumptions of mediaarchitecture are deeply problematic (Foth & Caldwell, 2018), existing within a set of symbolic meanings drawn from human cultural symbolic systems at the conceptual level and dependent on infrastructures of materials, production of disruptive light etc. at the material level. This workshop proposal invites playful, speculative story worldbuilding based on the premise that, as Ingold (2009) announces, animals inhabit meaning-full worlds. Such worlds may be inaccessible via human cultural symbol systems but they may be accessible through world building and speculative fictions