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Sustainability and innovation are not a simple and straightforward path; rather, they must recognise the value of complexity and the power of vulnerability, especially if their goal is to act towards a planetary justice.

The term planetary justice (Lobo, Mayes, Bedford 2024) represents radical perspectives and practices of ecofeminism and ecosocialism. It interweaves ideas of justice and solidarity. In the face of the right to biodiversity, a right to justice that listens to the diverse voices that speak with the planet. Planetary justice supports politics and methodologies that work towards a future in which the planet also thrives from a more-than-human perspective. Therefore what are the models and the lessons that sustainability and innovation should take into account today and put into action in order to advance the interactions between man, society and
nature and the systemic human constructions (Margulis 1998)? What-if non-human entities and more-than-human encounters are to be called upon to support these explorations?

Towards radical complexity on becoming others takes up these matters and suggests possible pathways that interdisciplinary fields and technological developments should consider in order to achieve truly human progress. By studying the diverse, the complex, the symbiotic, the alien, the caring, the embodied, the vulnerable (Pevere 2023), the intelligent (Bridle 2022), the ‘troubled’ and the ‘sympoietic’ (Haraway 2016), it questions how humans approach complexity through the neurotypical systemic lens (Manning 2016), with the aim of supporting unlearning practices aimed at learning how to truly planetary coexist (Lykke, Aglert, Henriksen 2024).