Nowadays, much is said about the importance of collaborative design processes that involve joint creation, affirming a context in which there is less and less room for individual work and much more for the logic of collective and co-creation. Therefore, the idea that the work is created exclusively by the architect is already understood as a distortion of the complex reality of designing a project, going beyond the technical staff and also adding the community and its users.
This spirit of collaboration is undoubtedly one of the new century’s great guidelines, a moment in which it is necessary to join forces to reverse climate change and deal with the problems generated by the exacerbated exploitation of natural resources. In this sense, collaboration has reached another level that includes relationships among humans but also between different species. It is possible to perceive a “return to nature” in our attitudes that allows us to be attentive to what surrounds us, inspiring us to seek simple and intelligent solutions for our spatial innovations. This interspecies collaboration may seem somewhat utopic, but it has proven to be an interesting way to generate resilient projects that rescue and recognize the value of non-human life.
Progress has always been intertwined with alienation techniques that turn humans and other beings into resources throughout history. These techniques have segregated species and obscured collaborative survival. Many efforts are being made to abandon anthropocentrism and move away from the human-animal paradigm to address this issue. A "biocentric" world centered on the multiplicity of species and built on collaborative relationships based more on interdependence and less on exploitation.
