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  1. 1. BUILDING RELATIONS WITH NATURE BY DESIGN METHODS

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Matt Christoph; [2022-06-03]
    Keywords : Kinship; More-than-human; Posthumanism; Anthropocene; Design Camp; Design Workshop; Design toolkit; Participatory Design; Embedded design; Sustainability;

    Abstract : Culture, art, and design can help us as a society and for each earthling to reflect on the ambivalent relationship between nature and humans in the Anthropocene by raising the critical question of how we can build more sustainable relations with nature through design. Respectively, this project documentation informs about my graduation project within the MFA embedded design program at HDK-Valand, focusing on design, organization, and sustainability. READ MORE

  3. 2. Reuse and Rethink the Smart City : Co-designing Other Ways of Seeing for a More-Than-Human World

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Sanna Klefbom; [2022]
    Keywords : posthumanism; more-than-human design; design for social innovation; co-design; critical fabulations; smart cities;

    Abstract : The promise of smart cities to deliver new urban efficiencies and optimizations for sustainability is increasingly being questioned for its anthropocentric, universal, and top-down perspectives. Framingcities as computers has been critiqued for its limiting understanding of cities, as well as its lack of dealing with the complexities of real messy cities, with diverse knowledge and lived experiences. READ MORE

  4. 3. Intra-Action – Entanglements Within and Beyond Environmental Photography

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Sofia Linnéa Emelie Doepel; [2021-01-15]
    Keywords : Environmental photography; cameraless photography; landscape photography; feminist posthumanism; posthumanism; ecofeminism; representation; anthropocene; phenomenology; quantum field theory; instrumentalism; environmental issues;

    Abstract : This essay is an attempt to approach the genre of both landscape and environmental photography, to turn them inside-out, to dissect and to deconstruct them through ecology, ecofeminism, feminist posthumanism and critical theory regarding the photographic medium. Throughout the essay I will focus on several artists and bodies of works that fall into this broad category of landscape and environmental photography. READ MORE

  5. 4. AI as Gatekeepers to the Job Market : A Critical Reading of; Performance, Bias, and Coded Gaze in Recruitment Chatbots

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Karin Victorin; [2021]
    Keywords : data feminism; digital discrimination; AI recruitment; chatbots; facial recognition; AFEA; hiring tools; feminist technoscience studies; intersectionality; coded gaze; hiring bots; social robots; performance; AI technology ethics; theatre and AI; Augusto Boal; posthumanism; Donna Haraway; Karen Barad;

    Abstract : The topic of this thesis is AI recruitment chatbots, digital discrimination, and data feminism (D´Ignazio and F.Klein 2020), where I aim to critically analyze issues of bias in these types of human-machine interaction technologies. READ MORE

  6. 5. Defining the Voice of Montreal: Exploring Possibilities for Human-Machine Companionship

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Malik Dehbi Talbot; [2020]
    Keywords : critical posthumanism; artificial intelligence; virtual assistant; tourism; science and technology studies; human-machine relationships; voicebot; labor relations; companion; sociomaterial assemblage; History and Archaeology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the possibility for (re)defining the relationship between humans and robots with conversational interfaces. It does so by looking at the creation process of a voice and text-based virtual assistant for tourists from the perspective of critical posthumanism and posthuman performativity. READ MORE