Essays about: "non-anthropocentric design"
Found 5 essays containing the words non-anthropocentric design.
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1. The Habitat : A Posthumanist Design Project for Making Kin with Nonhuman
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)Abstract : ‘the habitat’ is a Design+Change project which originates from the will to create positive change in the current situation of climate and ecological emergency. The design project takes the Anthropocene and the materialization of nonhumans as starting point and develops further around the possibilities of forming non-anthropocentric and nonhuman-centered mentalities and world-making processes. READ MORE
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2. Internet of Beings : Speculating about more-than-human interactions in the urban environment
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : Designing for societal engagement and benefit, aiming for the inclusion of humans, has been largely implemented within interaction design research. However, recent studies on entanglements and more-than-human worlds in interaction design, participatory and speculative design, in combination with Science & Technology Studies (STS) and ANT (Actor-network theories), revealed new opportunities for designers for the development of methods and practices, particularly about designing new forms of engagement with and through design artefacts for the benefit of the natural environment in the city. READ MORE
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3. Feral Futures: speculating more-than-human interactions in urban environments
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This thesis explores the concept of ‘feral’ while speculating possible futures of more-than-human interactions in urban environments. Feral in this project is described as living and non-living entities that are uncontrollable, unintentional, situated and dethatched from humans. READ MORE
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4. Non-anthropocentric Design Thinking : Shifting focus to earthling needs through speculative contextualization, continuous re-evaluation and a focus on long-term service-based relationships, supported by PaaS viability
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : In a world where halting climate breakdown is becoming more and more urgent by the minute, so too does the media industry need to deliver its contribution to change. Especially since innovation - a carrier of change - is seen as one of the main pillars of this field. READ MORE
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5. Designing for and with Care in Multispecies Kinship: Exploring Methods of Decentering the Human in Design
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : In the current climate crisis, creating a symbiotic collaboration between all members of an ecosystem has become a prominent topic. By reevaluating human-centered methodologies through a cultural probe and an orienting activity, I address notions of collaboration, cohabitation and extending one’s body beyond the skin. READ MORE
