More-Than-Human Design in Practice

Introduction

Part 1: Focus Areas

1. Design by/for/with/about/without Animals: Tactics for Animal Liberation

Michelle Westerlaken and Erik Sandelin

2. Being with Plants through Collective Fabulation, Critical Companionship and Cohabitation

Katerina Cerna, Anton Poikolainen Rosén, Yuxi Chen, Oscar Tomico and Dawn Sanders

3. Biomenstrual: Designing with the More-Than-Human Body

Nadia Campo Woytuk and Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard

4. Trying Out Shit!: Experimental Approaches for Relating with Microbes

Danielle Willde and Tau Lenskjold

5. Designing with Bodies of Water in the Hydrocene

Thomas Laurien, Anna Schröder, Inna Zrajaeva and Christoph Matt

6. Weathering with Storms and Grounds as a More-Than-Human Design Practice: Encountering Winds, Soils and Rocks 

Delphine Rumo and Gloria Lauterbach

7. Designing with Planetary Artificial Intelligence

Marcos Chilet, Martin Tironi, Iohanna Nicenboim and Joseph Lindley

8. Creative AI as More-Than-Human: Design Practices, Aesthetics and Cultural Imaginaries 

Petra Jääskeläinen

Part 2: Methods and Pedagogy  

9. Multispecies Ethnography in Design Research and Practice   

Heidi Biggs, Anton Poikolainen Rosén, Emilija Veselova, David Sánchez Ruano and Katerina Cerna

10. Four Questions for Systemic More-Than-Human Design in Practice

Anton Poikolainen Rosén, Yuxi Chen, Suzanna Törnroth, İdil Gaziulusoy and Tatu Marttila

11. Staying with Complexity through Multispecies Companionship at the I.N.S.E.C.T. Summercamp 2023

Svenja Keune, Colleen Ludwig, Katerina Cerna, Anneke ter Schure and Julia Tabet

12. How Can We Design with a Multi-Species Mindset Towards Regenerative Practices?

Julia Lohmann

13. Temporalities of Care in More-Than-Human Design

Gizem Oktay, Minha Lee, Bahareh Barati and Ron Wakkary

14.  Envisioning Multispecies Futures in Multispecies Environments: Methods, Outcomes and Learnings from a Future Scenario Workshop

Lotte Nystrup Lund and Shams Hazim

15. Peering through Time: Harnessing Anticipation in More-Than-Human Design

Camilo Sanchez, Anton Poikolainen Rosén, Antti Salovaara, Felix Epp and Tim Moesgen

16. Teaching for More-Than-Human Values and Perspectives in Technology Design 

Eva Eriksson, Elisabet M. Nilsson, Anne-Marie Hansen, Daisy Yoo and Tilde Bekker

17. Stepping Out of the Classroom and into the Worlds of Other Species

Daniel Metcalfe

Epilogue: Towards Creaturely Ways of Designing

Ann Light

Biography

Anton Poikolainen Rosén is a postdoctoral researcher in Human-Computer Interaction at the Department of Design, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, and the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden, studying design for sustainable futures and the more-than-human world. His research themes include critical, circular and multisensory approaches to farming and waste management.

Antti Salovaara is a Senior University Lecturer at the Department of Design, Aalto University, Finland. His research develops methods for HCI researchers to anticipate possible futures, particularly with a goal that futuring in HCI would not only consider technology-based factors.

Andrea Botero is an Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture of Aalto University. Her research and practice aim to understand how collectives (broadly speaking) come to understand the design spaces available to them, what counts as design, what other practices for world making are there, and which ones we need to call into being.

Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard is a designer and researcher exploring feminist design of technologies for human and environmental health. She is curious about how the materiality of human bodies relate with ecologies, and uses research-through-design, participation of communities and speculative storytelling to design for social and environmental justice. She has a PhD in Interaction Design from Aarhus University in Denmark and has been a postdoc at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Norway, where she researched somatic approaches in design and more-than-human design.

"This book represents an important shift in design. As we face global challenges, we need to shift our focus from a human-centred design approach to more-than-human perspectives and values. From using design to serve human needs, we now reconsider this in favour of other species, plants, and other lifeforms - including AI systems. This book is important for anyone approaching sustainability through design, or for anyone who wants to understand or design otherwise - for alternative ways of relating to nature, and alternative futures."

Mikael Wiberg, Professor of Informatics and co-editor-in-chief for ACM Interactions