This introduction to ‘Care-ful convening: Towards low carbon and inclusive knowledge sharing' outlines our hopes for this special issue, and introduces readers to a collection of authors who are expanding practices of convening with and through media. ‘Care, with and against’ (a phrase borrowed from M. Murphy) orients us towards ethical engagements amidst complex human and more-than-human entanglements. In contexts marked by unjust, carbon-intensive petrocultures, political violence and precarity, infrastructures of collective rejuvenation are essential. Towards that end, this introduction reflects on our ambitions to figure out how to think, communicate, and act differently in order to generate post-carbon, inclusive and multimodal approaches to convening. Through collaborative media projects and embodied conversations, we explore how extending care to ourselves, each other, and the planet can reshape the ways we gather, conduct research and form relationships.
Lakind et al. (2025) studied this question.