Swamps are not merely landscapes — they are living cosmologies. Dense with time, tangled with memory, they resist easy narratives and linear logics. In these saturated worlds, life proliferates in liminality: between water and land, decay and growth, the seen and the submerged. They invite us to think with entanglement — to dwell with multiplicity, contradiction, and the slow, unruly rhythms of the more-than-human. They are places where categories blur: where roots breathe air, where matter decomposes into new vitality, where ghosts and futures seep through the peat. To attune to swamp cosmologies is to embrace a way of knowing that is murky, moist, and interdependent — one that unsettles human-centered hierarchies and calls for kinship with the microbial, the vegetal, the elemental. In a time of ecological unraveling, the swamp offers not only warning but wisdom. It asks us to slow down, sink in, and listen.

Swamp Cosmologies is a series of peatland community based and transdisciplinary projects and processes which takes place across four different bogs, swamps, and diversely named peatlands connected by rich wet realities. 

Co-organized by local community organisations with Indigenous authorities and practitioners, artists, scientists, researchers and peatland inhabitants of various backgrounds with the transdisciplinary arts and research platform Sensing Peat at Michael Succow Foundation / Greifswald Mire Center and the Venice Agreement for Peatlands community, Swamp Cosmologies gathers diverse philosophies and lived approaches to surviving in and with peatlands based on mutuality between non-human and human beings.

The Swamp Cosmologies projects combine on site participatory research and arts formats with online publications and translations between the different local languages and English to connect knowledges and practices from different regions, communities and environments, from ancestral knowledge and experience through arts, science, bottom up nature conservation and ecological education initiatives. While the processes on site support ongoing bottom up nature conservation and the amplification of ancestral and scientific peatland knowledge, the online publications document a series of widely accessible examples of peatland cosmologies and peatland literacy. Thus Swamp Cosmologies offers tools for reimaging contemporary cultures in the face of planetary climate catastrophe through peatland based experiences and bottom up protection models.