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Editorial: More-than-human Design in Practice

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  • Joseph Lindley
  • Iohanna Nicenboim
  • Arne Berger
  • Cristina Zaga
  • Laura Forlano
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Publication date24/06/2024
Host publicationDRS2024: Editorials
EditorsColin M. Gray, Estefania Chehade Ciliotta, Paul Hekkert, Laura Forlano, Paolo Cuiccarelli, Peter Lloyd
Place of PublicationBoston
PublisherDesign Research Society
Number of pages9
ISBN (electronic)9781912294626
<mark>Original language</mark>English
EventDesign Research Society 2024: Resistance, Recovery, Reflection, Reimagination: DRS2024 - Northeastern University, Boston, United States
Duration: 24/06/202428/06/2024
https://www.drs2024.org

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ConferenceDesign Research Society 2024: Resistance, Recovery, Reflection, Reimagination
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period24/06/2428/06/24
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NameDRS2024 Boston: Design Research Society Conference 2024
PublisherDesign Research Society
ISSN (Print)2398-3132

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ConferenceDesign Research Society 2024: Resistance, Recovery, Reflection, Reimagination
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period24/06/2428/06/24
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Abstract

The field of design is currently undergoing a more-than-human turn. This shift is driven by pressing global challenges such as the climate crisis, alongside the increased agency of technologies in everyday life and a growing interest in advancing inclusive and sustainable agendas. This track invited submissions reporting on practical experiments within this emerging space. The contributions highlight diverse ways in which more-than-human thinking can be enacted across various contexts and emphasize the importance of forging new alliances –between humans and nonhumans, theory and practice, and research and industry. This editorial unpacks the track’s motivation and summarizes the contributions received, examining them through the concept of designing-with. Our discussion expands this concept to include a wide array of more-than-human engagements across three themes: making-with care, thinking-with technologies, and becoming-with multispecies. These themes move the field beyond mere participation of nonhumans in design processes, and towards novel practices of making, thinking, and becoming within human-nonhuman relations.