Our work is inspired by posthuman and more-than-human perspectives (Barad, Haraway, Braidotti), place-based and environmental education (Gruenewald, Sobel), and insights from the environmental humanities (Abram, Rose, Plumwood). We also draw on media and digital culture studies (Hayles, Jenkins, Flewitt, Kumpulainen) to explore how technologies shape, and are shaped by, human–nonhuman relations. Across these traditions, we treat stories, places, and digital tools as active participants that open imaginative and ethical spaces for living and learning with more-than-human worlds.

We build on prior exploratory research in Finland and extend it with North American cultural and historical nature stories to support children’s immersive, outdoor engagement and their own place-stories.