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(De)sign responses as response diversity
University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Department of Design, Interior Architecture and Visual Communication (DIV), Industrial Design.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3353-508X
2020 (English)In: Biosemiotics, ISSN 1875-1342, E-ISSN 1875-1350, no 13, p. 41-62Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article addresses the use of the ecological notion of ‘response diversity’ (Elmqvist et al. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 1(9), 488–494, 2003) to develop a biocentric approach for natural-artificial continuums through the practice of design. The article elaborates upon examples from the project Dispersal machines, part of my postdoctoral research entitled Symbiotic tactics. Dispersal machines proposed two complementary artificial systems that were conceived to minimize the damages by a moth (Spodoptera frugiperda) on crops (corn and soy predominantly) in the agroecosystems of Córdoba, Argentina. The proposals were ideated to biologically control this species by interventions that disseminate and/or host species that predate or parasitize the moth at different stages of its life cycle: a diurnal response, based on the dissemination of parasitized eggs of the moth by a minute wasp (Telenomus remus), as well as a nocturnal response, based on the placement of refuges for bats that feed on the adult moth. Considering these design interventions through the notion of ‘semethic interaction’ (Hoffmeyer 2008) as it relates to the more general term, ‘semiosphere’, the article reflects upon (de)sign as a signifying activity and design’s ‘response-ability’ (Haraway 2016), to speculate upon ways to devise and acknowledge inter-species co-adaptive possibilities.

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Springer, 2020. no 13, p. 41-62
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design, response diversity, semethic interaction, response ability, semiosphere
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URN: urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7517DOI: 10.1007/s12304-019-09374-8OAI: oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-7517DiVA, id: diva2:1502509
Available from: 2020-11-20 Created: 2020-11-20 Last updated: 2020-11-20Bibliographically approved

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