Humans have watched and admired the life and behaviour of bees since the dawn of time. We have built their hives and collected their sweet and golden honey. We have studied the relationships between bees and flowers, studied their diversity … read more
DAY 1 How are multispecies perspectives integrated in practices usually not working with multispecies? The VIBRA Research Network Online Symposium started out with a session focusing on how more-than-human perspectives are integrated into practices that predominantly focused on humans. First, … read more
VIBRA is a multi-scale endeavor that aims to create more inclusive living environments for human and non-human residents. Our team brings together practitioners from biotremology (animal vibration communication), inclusive studies, and more-than-human perspectives to design, art, and architecture to develop … read more
The Design + Posthumanism has existed for more than 5 years now and we are ready for some new challenges! Last month we established the network board – these eight people will get together regularly to conceptualize, ignite, organize, or … read more
This time of the year, under a full moon, a great reproduction of algae will commence, as it has once every year since before time began. This is the mass event of the bladderwrack, the vital seaweed that lines the … read more
Erik Sandelin defends his doctoral thesis “Design and Grace – An Ahuman Odyssey”. In a world where human activities often violently constrict the lives of others, how can designers cultivate creative acts of withdrawal, foreclosure and leaving be? Design is … read more
We cannot separate human needs from those of other organisms in our environment. Many organisms, including humans, benefit from considering design spaces as holistic and relational. More-than-human design focuses on this mutual interdependence. More-than-human design resists binaries and blurs notions … read more
This paper describes architecture as a form of cosmotechnics (Hui) which currently manifests a Western-Christian worldview globally. This worldview is entangled with the assumption of a God-given right to control and subordinate nonhuman nature (anthropocentrism). The text looks at the … read more
Exploring Vibration as a Sensory Multispecies perspective by Camping in the Treetops The I.N.S.E.C.T. Summercamp, now in its third year, brings together people from diverse backgrounds, e.g. design researchers, artists, architects, ecologists, biologists, biotremologists and more. We call ourselves the … read more
Can a Glacier Really Be President? According to the legislation, the Icelandic president must be at least 35 years old ✓, be a citizen of Iceland ✓, have no criminal record ✓, and have 1,500-3,000 signatures from people in all … read more