Conviviality

Conviviality refers to the art of living together, emphasizing interdependence between humans, non-humans, and their environments. Originally introduced by Ivan Illich in the 1970s to describe “autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and between persons and their environment,” the concept has since expanded beyond human-centered ethics. Contemporary debates, such as those articulated in the Second Convivialist Manifesto (2020), frame conviviality as a post-neoliberal principle for politics, economics, and ecology. Its five guiding principles—common humanity, common sociality, legitimate individuation, creative opposition, and common naturality—are subordinated to the imperative of hubris control. Within landscape architecture, conviviality offers a framework for designing spaces that foster multispecies cohabitation and entangled lifeworlds. It shifts focus away from human exceptionalism toward relational, process-oriented practices that acknowledge living systems as co-constitutive.

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