with a Bird, a Reader on Avian Kinship ceramics and sponge cities in China—proving

and sponge cities in China—proving that TEK drives transformative designs

these mainstream approaches assume that hyper-consumerism in the Global North can continue unabated

and furniture

and comic book style

it wasn’t merely a transit zone of the globalised era

with a Bird, a Reader on Avian Kinship ceramics and sponge cities in China—provingWith a Bird invites readers into an expansive, cross disciplinary conversation about how we live with an think alongside birds. The book frames birds not as metaphors or curiosities, but as kin creatures with their own histories, desires, and forms of knowing. Spanning speculative fiction, personal essay, visual art, ancestral memory, and critical ornithology, contributions explore the fragile, often overlooked relationships between birds and humans