origin -
How the term arose: Dr Rita Issa’s essay of 10 November 2025, and the gathering at Emerge Lakefront, Stockholm, from which it grew.
the term and its originThe future of health is symbient
“the future of health is not human alone, it is symbient”
pre-publication paper -
Xenohealth: Symbiotic Relations and the More-Than-Human Rights of Hybrid Ecologies
cite as -
Issa, R. and Lai, T. (2026). Xenohealth: Symbiotic Relations and the More-Than-Human Rights of Hybrid Ecologies. Pre-publication paper, first presented at the MOTH Festival of Ideas, London, May 2026. https://xenohealth.org/
what is xenohealth? -
“Xenohealth is a conceptual framework that extends planetary health into the realm of artificial intelligences, robotics, and hybrid human-machine ecologies.”
The one-line description from the essay in which Dr Rita Issa first set out the term. The paper takes it up.
Pre-publication paper · first presented at the MOTH Festival of Ideas, London, May 2026 (Academic Track)
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Planetary, ecological, technological, symbient.
lineage -
From planetary health, One Health and EcoHealth, through Stockholm and the MOTH Festival of Ideas in London, to a residency week at Feÿtopia in 2027.
the lineagefor every reader -
- Humans: this site, as it is.
- Agents and symbients: home, origin and lineage as Markdown, with an index at llms.txt. The paper itself is shared by invitation and is not in either.
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