Pluriversalism

Pluriversalism is a philosophical and political concept that calls for the recognition of multiple coexisting worlds, epistemologies, and ontologies. Emerging from decolonial theory, political ecology, and convivialist thought, it critiques modernist universalism, which seeks to impose a single framework of rationality, progress, or development. Pluriversalism instead asserts that diverse cultures and cosmologies embody valid, situated knowledges, and that planetary futures must be negotiated through their coexistence. The Second Convivialist Manifesto (2020) frames pluriversalism as an ethical stance that values maximum cultural diversity compatible with shared survival. In design and landscape discourse, pluriversalism underlines the need for practices that are context-sensitive, open to non-Western ontologies, and responsive to multispecies worlds. It is thus both a critique of homogenization and an affirmative call for plural pathways of living together.

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