Decentering Through Design: Bridging Posthuman Theory with More-than-Human Design Practices

Iohanna Nicenboim; Doenja Oogjes; Heidi Biggs; Seowoo Nam

doi:10.1080/07370024.2023.2283535

Decentering Through Design: Bridging Posthuman Theory with More-than-Human Design Practices

Iohanna Nicenboim (Corresponding author), Doenja Oogjes, Heidi Biggs, Seowoo Nam

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While decentering the human has been a key approach in posthumanist HCI, there are still questions and tensions around it. To address them, we outline emergent notions of decentering, tracing it back from HCI to critical posthumanism and connecting epistemological developments in the humanities to design scholarship. Then, reviewing how decentering is understood and practiced in HCI, we distill five emerging dimensions for articulating more-than-human practices. We conclude by unpacking “decentering through design” as an ongoing material practice through which more-than-human designers not only materialize (apply) posthuman theory but also “make” posthuman knowledge in their own unique ways.

Originele taal-2	Engels
Pagina's (van-tot)	195-220
Aantal pagina's	26
Tijdschrift	Human-Computer Interaction
Volume	40
Nummer van het tijdschrift	1-4
Vroegere onlinedatum	27 nov. 2023
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2023.2283535
Status	Gepubliceerd - 2025

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We would like to thank Elisa Giaccardi and Johan Redstrom for their support. We would also like to thank the reviewers for their invaluable feedback, and Evert van Beek for giving us initial comments on the first draft. Part of the work presented in this paper was supported by the Microsoft Research PhD fellowship awarded to Iohanna Nicenboim.

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