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Accepted Paper:
Paper Short Abstract:
How can we include non-human perspectives in design anthropological practices to address contemporary global challenges? We construct theory instruments to help instigate perspectival shifts across scales and provide a tangible vocabulary for engaging in co-design practices beyond the human
Paper Abstract:
Design anthropology combines methods and perspectives from design and anthropology to explore possible futures at the intersection between design and everyday life. However, a design anthropological focus on the situated everyday life of humans, often neglects how this is entangled with the everyday life of non-humans both locally and globally.
Following the increasingly bleak environmental and climatic forecasts and the advent of the Anthropocene, a 'more-than-human turn' has swept through anthropology and design research in recent years. It entails a dual and intertwined concern for rethinking relations between local and global scales - e.g. situated practices and sensorially ungraspable 'hyper objects' - and engagements with biological and technological entities beyond the human.
In this paper, we explore how to tune design anthropological methods and perspectives to better address and design for contemporary global challenges that extend beyond the human and the local. We are inspired by Freal Atlas (Tsing et al, 2020), a transdisciplinary and interactive platform exploring ‘feral ecologies’ resulting from human infrastructure projects. Analyzing this project and its theoretical frames, we explore their relevance for addressing a design anthropology beyond the human along three axes: The entanglement of human-non-human practices, the bridging of scales, and s vocabulary for scaffolding a design anthropology practice beyond the human.
The aim is to conceptualize and construct theory instruments (Sorensen & Kjærsgaard 2022) that make tangible new possibilities for reframing perspectival shifts across scales and enabling a new design anthropological vocabulary for engaging in co-design practices for alternative futures.
Designing futures: design anthropology for shaping alternative worlds
Session 3 Thursday 25 July, 2024, -