Abstract
Feral Wool is an ongoing research-through-design project that takes place in theSouth Tyrol region in Italy. It explores the concept of overflowing and overlookedlocal wool that becomes a troubled abundance due to the global dynamics of the“Capitalocene”. By calling wool "feral” as an entry point, we highlight the abandon-ment of a precious matter while regenerating narratives of plural cosmo-ecologies.Through design, the project traces invisible and neglected stakeholders to open upspace for new alliances to imagine alternative futures of local wool. Our article posesthe following questions: What other cosmologies need to be considered to bindinterspecies relations and foster care? What other new aesthetics of wool need tobe discovered as a “matter of care” and relationality? We address these questions byunfolding research insights into new care practices and processes while also repre-senting a visualisation of wool cosmology which will serve as a basis for multispeciesdreaming for wool futures.