This was the launch of Constant's third publication under the SPLINT research trajectory: Otherworldly Communications!

In 2025 Constant’s research focused on how different forms of life co/exist and circulate in the midst of damage and toxicity and how we could critically engage with different conceptions of the ’other’ (as in: other than human, otherworldly and otherings). This publication tells a subjective and multi-voiced story about discoveries and encounters that happened during the unfolding of our activities.

The publication was compiled during a three day sprint by Constant’s team, guided by graphic designer Sarah Magnan, and printed at chez rosi in Brussels using the software Octomode by Creative Crowds.

During the event, we had live contributions by some of the artists that accompanied us in this trajectory, such as Joke Caimo, Blise Orr, Varia.

https://constantvzw.org/site/Zine-launch-Otherwordly-Communications.html?lang=en

Hormonobotanik is a project focusing on medicinal plants, their phytohormonal properties and their uses in transition processes, initiated by Flo*Souad Benaddi in 2019 then joined by Leo Ren O’faigain and Doriane Timmermans.

https://constantvzw.org/site/Constant_V-Hormonobotanik-wiki.html

Constant organised two study days on the 10 & 11 December 2025 around the figure of the urban rat in the context of the yearly trajectory called Otherworldly communications.

These study days were meant to critically engage with different conceptions of the ’other’ as in: other than human, otherworldly and otherings. We convoked the figure of the urban rat to speak about notions of invasiveness and out-of-place-ness, and to examine how the gesture of othering normalises and fuels systemic violence. These study days brought us closer to so-called invasive/unwanted species while discussing biosocial order, sterile urban spaces and, consequently, who gets to (visibly) occupy them.

During these two days, we scratched at several layers through a visit to the Sewer Museum of Brussels, contributions and activations from the Invasive Species Working Group, collective readings and a speculative writing session by Maru Mushtrieva.

https://constantvzw.org/site/Study-days-Rattus-urbanicus.html?lang=en

https://constantvzw.org/site/Confusing-coding-club-pt-6-Simmering-Connections-Culinary-Kinship-in-Action.html

When does a tree’s sap start flowing, when do trees get to work in the morning, when does their trunk grow most? During one year, the artists of the Anaïs Berck collective measured the movements of three Scots Pines in three nature reserves in Flanders, with the intention of designing tree clocks. They recorded their movements using sensors that measure the expansion and contraction of the trunk, CO2 absorption, air temperature and humidity, and sunlight.

The installation runs simultaneously in Constant, the Kalmthoutse Heide/De Vroente, Landschap De Liereman, and Pijnven/National Park Bosland.

Photo's : Isabel Burr Raty & Constant

https://constantvzw.org/site/Constant_V-Tree-Times.html?lang=en

We had a new wave of data-center conversations to be developed and collectively explored some tool-based proposals for resistance. There were some pin machines present.

https://constantvzw.org/site/ConfusingCodingClub-p-2-Open-work-time.html?lang=en