Designerly ways of engaging with nature: exploring the methodological landscape of more-than-human design research

Oscar Tomico, Ferran Altarriba, Svenja Keune, Oǧuz Buruk, Danielle Wilde, Ron Wakkary

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    Abstract

    In this workshop, we will bring together designers and researchers working with, for, and around nature to facilitate a transversal conversation around how to engage nature as a key part of our design processes. By deliberately adopting an open and ambiguous idea of what we mean by nature', we hope to embrace diverse kinds of more-than-human entanglements, including (but not only): farming, companion species, microbiomes, body ecologies, forests and other large-scale landscapes (e.g. oceans), or cohabitation in houses. We argue for the importance of taking such an open-ended perspective, to embrace all possible relevant vectors of nature-related design: multispecies, cohabitation, posthuman sustainability, posthuman care... The workshop is set as a as a platform for shared methodological reflection through the lenses of a more-than-human approach to posthuman research. It will primarily be in-person, given our aim of bringing researchers together and co-experiencing each others' methods and techniques.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationMindtrek '23
    Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 26th International Academic Mindtrek Conference
    Place of PublicationNew York
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc.
    Pages309-312
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Electronic)979-8-4007-0874-9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2 Nov 2023
    Event26th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, ACADEMIC MINDTRICK 2023 - Tampere, Finland
    Duration: 3 Oct 20236 Oct 2023

    Publication series

    NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

    Conference

    Conference26th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, ACADEMIC MINDTRICK 2023
    Country/TerritoryFinland
    CityTampere
    Period3/10/236/10/23

    Funding

    Svenja Keune is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, in Sweden and at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. During her phd project “On Textile Farming” within the MSCA ArcInTexETN she turned towards seeds as a potential biological alternative, and as a dynamic material for textile design. In order to explore alternative ways of living that the textile plant hybrids might propose, Svenja built and moved into a Tiny House on Wheels to live together with the research experiments. Svenja is currently finishing up ’Designing and Living with Organisms (DLO)’, a 3 year project funded by an international postdoc grant from the Swedish Research Council.

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      Keywords

      • cohabitation
      • collaborative survival
      • designing-with
      • human-nature interactions
      • more-than-human research
      • multispecies design

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