Rapid urban growth stands out as a paramount contributor to the prevailing global sustainability challenges, threatening the environmental, social, and economic qualities of human life. It entails intertwined processes where competing interests determine the use of space, and the allocated space for nature is often crowded out by business and development needs. While urban development processes can adhere to sustainability principles, solely prioritizing the alignment of the urban environment's form and function with human desires and needs overlooks the realities of climate disruption and biodiversity loss. This points to the urgency of reorienting urban design and landscaping practices toward ways the built environment embraces and participates in nature and accounts for species other than humans in placemaking processes. This article responds to this challenge by exploring the use of data storytelling for digital placemaking. We present a design framework for creating data stories with a more-thanhuman (MTH) perspective that could provide entry points for integrating socio-ecological systems thinking in urban placemaking. The proposed framework serves not only as a method but also as a tool to facilitate this broader perspective. In essence, the envisaged outcome of employing MTH data stories goes beyond mere narratives; rather, their aim is to instigate collaborative discussions, negotiations, awareness, sense-making, and reflexivity in placemaking processes.