ECOSYSTEM EUROPE 

Ecosystem Europe is one of the thematic collections of Alterlibrary, tackling the theme of a possible imaginary continent from an angle that applies ecosystemic features to the creation of a possible future.

Ecosystem Europe is a not yet existing place. We invite you to imagine it.

Ecosystem Europe is an imaginary continent at the heart of our present day societies and a potential source to shape possible futures with.

Ecosystem Europe arises through a theoretical shift in the perspective we assume when looking at existing societies. 

This shift considers ecosystemic features as a basis of a possible way of living together. 

What if we tried to think about an imaginary continent, to narrate and visualise it as an environment in which borders become prosperous thresholds?

What if everything is entangled?

What if all living things live in an environment of mutual cooperation and collective production without resulting in an imbalanced one-sided exploitation and extraction?

What if transformation and precarity turn it into a thriving process of continuous evolution? What if messiness does not cause anxiety but joyfulness? 

We invite you to look at the sources in this collection as Renewable Sources, to regenerate your imaginary. 

Looking through the lens of ecosystems allows us to move beyond the conventional view of societies as a series of borders, linear histories, and separate communities. Instead the richness, interdependence, and inherent vulnerability of ecosystems–including both human and non-human elements–can become defining features of future societies. 

Ecosystem Europe thus proposes to embark on a journey across a continent to be imagined, to be shaped through the collective engagement of our speculative and creative faculties. 

Practicing an Ecosystemic Imagination

We invite you to practice an ecosystemic imagination—a dynamic, evolving space where diverse images, ideas, and perspectives coexist, cross-pollinate, and develop over time. Rather than settling on a single  definition of Ecosystem In our reflections, we found that ecosystems defy easy categorization, embodying qualities that resonate with the complexities of Europe as a shared space. 

Please navigate the collections by reflecting about connections, divergences and entanglements, following one of our four Ecosystemic Journeys.