In August 2022, researchers in the fields of design, art, engineering and anthropology got together for three weeks to focus their full attention on their little animal companions, insects. An INterSpecies Exploration by biodigital Craft and manufacturing Technologies I.N.S.E.C.T. Summer Camp … read more
Participatory design has traditionally foregrounded humans as agents and stakeholders in design processes. While the notion of ‘design ecologies’ have gained prominence as an understanding of the particular entanglements, processes of design are part of, the role of nature and … read more
Challenging the dominant design paradigm that centers humanity in its practice, Designing for Interdependence puts forward an ecocentric mode of designing that privileges a harmonious relationship between all life forms that share our planet. This book is about the practice of designing … read more
As a humanist tradition, architecture, with all its associated professions and discourses, has developed within an anthropocentric (human-centred) thought-space. In these disciplines, ontological questions (questions about things in the world) have primarily centred around architectural objects and their human inhabitants. … read more
The digital exhibition How to Become a Posthuman is part of the collective artistic research project Fabulation for Future, which is based on the call for deputies to form the fictive International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation. The 33 international committee … read more
Biomenstrual is a collection of biomaterial experiments, rituals, and spells for imagining, designing and practicing menstrual care beyond the human body. The project explores designing for non-anthropocentric, ecofeminist practices of human menstrual care. We focus on how menstrual products are … read more
We, Ana Goidea, Asya Ilgün, Dilan Özkan, Phil Ayres, Svenja Keune, and Laurin Kilbert are organizing the I.N.S.E.C.T. Summercamp in August and hereby invite you to co-create Part 2 together with us.Dear friends, colleagues, and neighbours!We, Ana Goidea, Asya Ilgün, … read more
Thomas Laurien: Hej Svenja! What are you up to these days? I know that you quite recently moved your multispecies entourage from one site to another. Could you tell us a bit about that transition, and how you have settled … read more
Abstract: This paper engages with biodiversity loss. In particular, it focuses on observations and scientific facts: the decline of pollinators and what that entails for the co-living of humans and more-than-humans. This kind of work often reaches the publics as … read more
The course “Design for the Posthuman Era” started again this year for bachelor and master level students at Aalto University in Finland. As part of the syllabus, we have two open lectures from guest researchers, and we’d like to welcome … read more