No próximo dia 26 de Fevereiro, terá lugar um Webinar do Post-Human Animal organizado pelo Human-Animal Studies Hub e pelo projeto ABIDE. 

O Evento será exclusivamente Online (via Teams) e vai decorrer no dia 26 de Fevereiro, entre as 15h-17h, com o tema When non-humans are not the brief, but shape the outcomes anyway: reflections on co-designing from-the-wild, apresentado por Ferran Altarriba Bertran (Associate Professor at ERAM - Escola Universitària de les Arts, Salt, Catalonia).

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Abstract

"Design research has not always embraced non-humans as explicit stakeholders. Contemporary more-than-human and posthuman approaches increasingly challenge this norm. While the importance of these orientations is undeniable in projects that explicitly target non-humans as receivers of an intervention, or as design partners, in this talk I will argue that these practices are also relevant in works that do not fully decenter humans and position them as the main receivers of a designed thing. Anchoring my argument in the design space of human-forest interactions, I will reflect on a series of forest-based design research projects in which non-humans were never explicitly “the brief”, yet nonetheless influenced both the design process and its outcomes. Through vivid examples, I will show how co-designing from-the-wild (that is, through prolonged, embodied, and attentive engagements within forest ecologies) allowed non-human livelihoods to become part of the design situation and, at times, to substantially shape what emerged – opening up unforeseen generative avenues and imbuing meaning-making with more-than-human sensibility, even if the research was primarily exploring human experiences in a broad sense. Through these examples, I will challenge binary notions that design can be either human-centered or more-than-humanely oriented. Instead, I will argue that designing for humans in attentive co-presence with more-than-human others can give rise to ideas that escape the bounds of anthropocentrism, making the design of things targeting humans synergic with more-than-human concerns. The talk will thus invite designers and researchers to consider how methodological stance, rather than intention alone, can open space for more-than-human agencies to meaningfully participate – within, but especially at the peripheries of, more-than-human design."

Author

Ferran Altarriba Bertran is an Associate Professor at ERAM Escola Universitària de les Arts (Salt, Catalonia), where he leads the Playful Living Lab. His research explores how to co-design technologies and experiences that support ways of living that are both joyful and caring. As part of this work, he investigates how technology can mediate joyful interactions in forest ecologies, building on his personal relationship with forests as important spaces in his everyday life.

Mais informação: www.ferranaltarriba.com

Instagram: @ferranaltarriba / @wildtechresearch