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Futures at the Margins: adopting more-than-human perspectives

Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

5/12/2024

This talk is a response to the problematic nature of futuring practices that adopt rhetorical devices, such as the futures cone, to concretise possible futures. I will argue that rather than acknowledging the prospect of a plurality of futures the cone embodies several problematic attributes most notably a one-world-world view. It suggests a single point representing supposed accepted present reality and takes no account how history, beliefs, values, and fiction are all implicated in the cultural construction of past, present, and future realities by different individuals and groups. The cone also fails to respond to the defuturing of our world resulting from the current domination of anthropocentric (human-centred) design practices which often deliberately mask the interdependences of human and non-human actants within the systems we inhabit. In response the talk will present an alternate theoretical framing and practical examples to enable the incorporation of a plurality of human and non-human perspectives in furturing practices in other words to enable designers to create more-than-human imaginaries of future worlds in which many worlds fit.

Event (Conference)

TitleEXPANDING THE MARGINS
Date4/12/245/12/24
Website
LocationUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya
CityBarcelona
Country/TerritorySpain
Degree of recognitionInternational event