8. Manyfest
The Manyfest claims space for all species seen, described, scientifically accepted and currently living on Earth – from the many small Aaadonta angaurana snails endemic to the Palau Islands, to the many tiny Zzyzzarro hortorum flies in Western Australia. This Manyfest is based on the Catalogue of Life (released in April 2025, accessed on 19 September 2025). The Catalogue of Life contains expert and verified taxonomic data from over 170 sources, providing the most comprehensive global index of known species. From this dataset, vernacular and scientific names were extracted and matched using scripts for data parsing, pluralization and editing, resulting in a total of 1,610,208 entries. This list represents all currently recognised extant, accepted species across all kingdoms of life: from Animals to Plants, from Chromista to Fungi, from Bacteria to Viruses, from Arachea to Protozoa.
Something Fantastic was founded by Elena Schütz (DE, born 1983), Julian Schubert (DE, born 1982) and Leonard Streich (DE, born 1981) based on the conviction that architecture affects everything and vice versa, and that a new type of architectural practice is needed to meet social, ecological and political responsibilities. Something Fantastic is conceived as an “undisciplinary” office whose work ranges from designing to teaching, from drawing to engaging, from books to exhibitions, from furniture to buildings to urban forms. The goal is finding ways to make better use of what is already there, while attempting to balance the creation of something new. Ongoing themes in their teaching, among others at Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and at Universität der Künste in Berlin, are constellation housing, Inclusive urbanism and new forms of architectural practice.