This paper aims to weave reflections around relational practices of micro-regeneration and eco-democracy through the micropolitics of seeds and their strategies for inhabiting fractured worlds. It conceptualises seeds as living technologies and relational agents in intergenerational dialogue and future co-creation processes. Particularly interested in pioneer species that grow in toxic, desertified, or post-extractive landscapes, it approaches seeds as transitional matter and micro-archives of regeneration, carrying memory, adaptation, resilience, and futurity without contradiction. This inquiry is situated within a broader transitional crisis, in which the acceleration of extractive frontiers and the erosion of democratic institutions reveal a world already in the aftermath of irreversible change. Environmental collapse and democratic fragility are understood here as interconnected processes, produced by extractive systems that privilege control, certainty, and domination over relational practices. If the collapse is not ahead of us but already underway, the question becomes how to cultivate modes of living that sustain life in unstable, damaged, and uncertain conditions.
The paper presents and analyses an arts-based participatory protocol for engaging with seeds and examines how it can function as a somatic inquiry framework. Methodologically, the study is grounded in Art-Based Perceptual Ecology (ABPE) and Participatory Action Research (PAR). The protocols are structured through walking, deep listening, shared recording devices, seed investigation, and collective reflection, treating perception as embodied and relational. Through these practices, the protocols combine sensory engagement with territory and collaborative processes of inquiry. As a case study, the paper examines their application during the Third International Biennial of Río Negro, where the author facilitated a ten-day activation with intergenerational groups in the community of Valcheta, Argentine Patagonia.