A chapter examining the theoretical, practical and political conditions of other-than-human design. It is linked to CO-HABITAT and Co-habitat: Towards an Animal-Inclusive Design in the Brussels-Capital Region. The discussion centres on Other-than-human design, Multispecies urbanism, Design politics, and Non-human agency.

The analysis draws on Conceptual analysis, design-theory review, and critical reflection. The geographical or conceptual scope is Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium; conceptual scope.

Within the Lab’s agency-and-systems strand, the work moves beyond passive stock-and-flow representations to examine how institutions, practices, infrastructures and non-human processes shape metabolic change. Written by Koenraad Danneels, Bruno Notteboom, and Daniela Perrotti, it appears in or was issued by CO-HABITAT Research Report — KU Leuven / University of Louvain (ISBN 978-94-9278-027-0).