This is perhaps my take on what a regenerative relationship can look like: a relationship where meaning flows from one form of life to another and where we let what is meaningful for other lifeforms transform what is meaningful for us.

Estelle Zhong Mengual, artist in residency

Zoöp Connections is a networked residency programme connecting European cultural institutes (EUNIC members) and Dutch “Zoöps” — organisations committed to multispecies justice and ecological regeneration. Together, they create one-month residencies for artists, thinkers and practitioners from across Europe to learn from, live with, and work within these living ecosystems. Rather than focusing on production, the residencies encourage immersion, care and attention — opening new ways of knowing, listening and relating to the more-than-human world. Each residency is co-designed by a Zoöp and an EUNIC member after a matchmaking process, responding to local needs and ecological questions. The 2026 edition builds on the success of the first Zoöp Connections cycle, expanding and deepening commitment by Zoöps, EUNIC members and other partners, such as the communications partner, Meander Magazine. Through local hosting, artistic research, and shared learning moments, the project nurtures sustainable cultural relations between people, places, and other-than-human life, shaping a European culture of regeneration and ecological citizenship.

Stay tuned for more information coming soon!