Both researchers separately sketched and annotated the visual sketch with details and personal considerations. After capturing enough details, the researchers started the fabulations. Each sketch generated a different set of responses and plot twists. Two different worlds were generated.

Figure 1: The house and the palms collapse into the sea.

1.New ecosystems for MtH cohabitation

The humans were initially scared and sad, and reacted to it, feeling the loss of something they built that sheltered them and that they owned. – their shelter. From the house perspective, we don’t know if the house was happy or sad enough to move on to its new status under the sea. We don’t know if the house jumped voluntarily or collapsed …but one day, it fell into the ocean and created new coral reefs, the home of many new plants and species.

We know that the palm trees jumped voluntarily into the sea. They found themselves at ease underwater, developed new ways to move around and survive, and became part of the new environment in the new coral reef.

The humans started to visit this new place underwater, full of life and felt proud and welcomed. They tend to spend more and more time there- they start to develop technologies that allow them to cohabitate this space with the underwater species.

2.Making kin, caring and repearing

Figure 2: Handwritten fabulation

After years of living close to the little house, the palm tree became acquainted with the humans living in it. They would come in the summer with kids and animals, food, make noise, and laughter and bring joy, diversity, and water. After years of winter storms and dry summers, the earth under the little house started to slip away- exposing the palm roots and the house basements. The palm became more exposed, leaning towards the void, but also towards the sea. Her roots, hanging out dried out and were less able to provide water and nourishment to the plant. The humans trimmed her leaves and watered the base- the palm in return, wrapped her roots around the house's exposed basements, forming a solid collaboration (making kin) with the humans and the earth. The assemblage of humans grew accustomed and found each other’s help. They kept each other close and alive.

The humans will tend to the palm roots, caressing it , and providing water and nutrients for the roots; the roots would grow stronger and closer to the humans, holding up their house. The palm would produce sweet dates and provide shadow for th humans to rest, while they kept the plant hydrated – humans and more than humans developed kin.

Figure 5: Loose transcript from the handwritten fabulation:

*“*Humans and plants develop a caring symbiotic relationship. Humans start watering and nourishing the roots, caring for them, and growing affectionately to the plants. In return, the palm searches for the humans, lengthening the roots, reaching the houses, penetrating its structure, supporting it, and saving it from falling into the sea, keeping the humans safe and close. “

The fabulations were shared and refined to make sure they captured affirmative and positive versions of the worlds they had created. In both fabulations (one which witness the falling of the natural and human elements into the sea, the other the humans and plants help each other to maintain the status quo above the waters) gives way to new ecosystems where humans and more than humans make kin and thrive.