Designing Multispecies Neighbourhoods in Urban Seascapes offers a unique practice–led investigation into the complexities of multispecies placemaking, design, and storytelling in urban seascapes—drawing on experiences from the Oslofjord, the Skagerrak, Muolkkut in Finnmárku County (Northern Norway), and the Atlantic coast of California.

Taking a interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a nuanced account of the ecological and social functions of urban rewilding, and of how interspecies perspectives inform art, community building, and urban and societal planning. Opening with a prologue, it invites the reader into multispecies worlds, setting the stage for the conceptual terrain and approach taken. Divided into three parts, the first addresses topics that seek to connect knowledge between land and sea, and the development of viable marine neighbourhoods. The second critically engages with the practice of interspecies relations through four stories—two authored by invited contributors—offering reflections on practical experiences of more–than–human care and place–stories. The third brings together applied perspectives on rewilding, including multispecies user surveys, a new vocabulary for living shorelines, and other tools for navigating multispecies futures in urban seascapes. Taking an environmental humanities approach, this book builds a bridge between knowledge from marine science and ecological engineering, landscape architecture and art, and nature–based co–learning to open new and productive ways of thinking about the interspecies perspective in urban seascapes.

This will be a fascinating read for scholars, researchers and upper–level students in landscape architecture, marine science and ecology, societal planning, urban development, environmental design, art, and environmental humanities.

Elin Tanding Sørensen is an artist (MA, Oslo National Academy of the Arts), animator (Volda University College), diversity activist, and independent researcher with a practice–based PhD in marine landscape architecture (MA and PhD, Norwegian University of Life Sciences). Her pioneering work blends eco–social art, architecture, and urban rewilding to explore human societies as integral expressions of living ecosystems. With a strong foundation in community engagement, her research centers on multispecies placemaking and co–learning. Elin has led several long–term, site–responsive art projects in Norway and Athens, and was recently a Fulbright Scholar at UC Santa Cruz. Through interdisciplinary collaborations, she seeks to inspire collective care by merging artistic vision with social change.