Planetability. Relations of Health, Healing, and Cohabitation
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a Nov 04, 2025 - 05:00 PM
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With COP30 convening in Belém, on the edge of the Amazon basin, we are reminded that the question of habitability – of what makes Earth a home for life – can no longer be taken for granted. Extreme climate events, toxic landscapes, and deepening socio-ecological fractures expose the fragility of the systems that sustain planetary life. The Planetary Health movement has shown that the health of human beings cannot be separated from the health of the Earth’s living systems. Yet, our current trajectory points toward a profound habitability crisis, in which the planetary conditions of human and more-than-human cohabitation are under threat.
This two-day event brings together scholars, artists, and practitioners to think and act from within this crisis. Rooted in the frameworks of planetary health and planetary thinking, it seeks to explore the interconnected crises of environment, society, and meaning that define our time, asking: How can we inhabit a damaged planet? What forms of knowledge, care, and transformative thinking are needed to guarantee cohabitation between human and more-than-human life.
The event proposes planetability as a critical concept – a lens through which to rethink the conditions for sustaining more-than-only-human life amid collapse, inequity, and transformation. Rather than viewing planetability as a static or technical issue, participants will approach it as a relational, ethical, and aesthetic practice, bridging scientific, indigenous, and artistic perspectives on what it means to inhabit the Earth.
Important: Brasília time (GMT-3) is being considered on this page, referring to the in-person activities. The program below considers the CET.
Registration
Free and public event | Registration is mandatory (click here)
Online event (https://www.youtube.com/@saudeplanetaria and https://www.youtube.com/@catedramartius) | No attendance certification will be provided
The event will be held in English and Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation
Organization
Planetary Health Brazil (IEA/USP)
Martius Germany-Brazil Chair in Humanities and Sustainability (DAAD-USP)
PROBRAL Program (CAPES-DAAD) "Planet-ability": Integrating Planetary Health and Multispecies Cohabitation in Urban Design and Research