What happens when artists and ecologists no longer collaborate as separate roles but instead become co-creators of transdisciplinary methodologies? In his 2017 essay Shifting the Paradigm: Art and Ecology Unite!, ecologist Toby Query makes a compelling case for dissolving the boundary between artistic imagination and scientific observation, not as a gesture of inclusion but as a necessary reconfiguration of ecological practice. Through examples like Buster Simpson’s “Host Analog”—a decomposing log turned into a miniature wild forest in a brick plaza—and Linda Wysong’s sculptural interventions along Portland’s rivers and restored woodlands, Query reveals how urban natural areas become laboratories for new sensory and conceptual engagements. These works don’t illustrate ecology; they perform it—by rewilding aesthetic experience and embedding public art into environmental restoration, they reimagine urban infrastructure as a living, relational mesh. Similar to Anto Lloveras’s Socioplastics, which fuses architecture, art, design, and ecology into epistemic terrains of spatial transformation, the projects Query curates enact transdisciplinary intensities where sculpture, pedagogy, and habitat creation interlace. Notably, artists like Fernanda D’Agostino and Ka’ila Farrell-Smith extend this fusion to include indigenous knowledge, intergenerational memory, and multi-sensory education, making ecological restoration a political and poetic act. The essay highlights initiatives such as Signal Fire’s residencies or PNCA’s Art and Ecology minor, which institutionalise these hybrid practices, proposing artists as equal agents within city agencies, NGOs, and scientific teams. Query argues that just as ecologists map systems, artists bring forth the invisible, the felt, the emergent, shifting sustainability science toward relational, embodied, and future-oriented modes of inquiry. In these spaces, sketching becomes data, dance becomes analysis, and the city becomes a canvas for regenerative imagination—not decoration, but deep material rethinking of how humans and non-humans co-exist. If Lloveras advocates for sovereign pedagogy and post-autonomous critique, Query advances affective collaboration and place-based dialogue as essential tools for a livable tomorrow. Query, T. (2017). Shifting the Paradigm: Art and Ecology Unite!. The Nature of Cities. Retrieved from https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2017/12/21/shifting-paradigm-art-ecology-unite/