The role of technology in addressing the environmental crisis has been widely discussed in recent years. While rising temperatures, biodiversity loss, and extreme weather events affect much of the planet, advanced technologies are increasingly being employed to study, predict, and confront environmental challenges. The special issue of Automaton, “Technonatural Ecologies and the Climate Crisis,” raises questions about both the potential and the limits of technological mediation, exploring how biotechnological and computational infrastructures co-shape the concepts of nature, ecology, and crisis, while also reflecting on the socio-political, ethical, and philosophical implications of technophysical coexistence.

With the contribution of: Zissis Kotionis & Ioanna Sotiriou, Alexandros Damianos, Kyriaki Goni, Stefania Strouza, Giorgos Velegrakis & Antonis Faras, Vassilis Kostakis, ISSA, Despina Catapoti, Leandros Kyriakopoulos, Manolis Patiniotis