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Designing for multispecies affordances: A poetics of control
University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Department of Design, Interior Architecture and Visual Communication (DIV), Industrial Design. Konstfack.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3353-508X
Tartu University.
University of Helsinki.
2025 (English)In: Relational Design: Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Design Research Society (NORDES) Conference / [ed] Morrison, A., Culén, A., Habib, L., London: Design Research Society, 2025, p. 767-770Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This workshop will engage participants in an exercise that conceives experimental design practices that involve communication with other-than-human species. The process encourages a shift away from human-centred control, creating conditions that allow other species to manifest their own behaviours. This is important since the dominant global material culture of design does not acknowledge the presence and interaction of other species with things designed, erasing biodiversity as human habits repeat anthropocentric and destructive ecological patterns. Building on the work of J. J. Gibson’s concept of affordances, and other work that conform the emerging field that today is understood as posthumanism, the workshop will speculate upon possibilities of cohabitation with ‘umbrella’ or keystone species of different locations.

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London: Design Research Society, 2025. p. 767-770
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Nordic design research conference, ISSN 1604-9705 ; 11
Keywords [en]
affordances, multispecies, design-driven research, ecosemiotics, biodiversity
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Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-10521DOI: 10.21606/nordes.2025.73ISBN: 978-1-912294-58-9 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-10521DiVA, id: diva2:1987666
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Nordes 2025: Relational Design : 11th Nordic Design Research Society (NORDES) Conference, 6-8 August 2025, OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo Norway
Available from: 2025-08-07 Created: 2025-08-07 Last updated: 2025-09-26Bibliographically approved

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