Design Beyond the Human: Transdisciplinary Conversations About the Planet
Caccavale, Elio and Hush, Gordon, eds. (2022) Design Beyond the Human: Transdisciplinary Conversations About the Planet. Bloomsbury, London.
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Abstract: | Global challenges like climate change and ecosystem degradation are proving that a singular disciplinary approach is inadequate to respond to issues where societal behaviours, individual choices, political decisions, economic, technological and scientific developments are so densely entangled – not least in design. But what happens when we turn things around and decenter “the human” to look at our relationship with the planet, its ecosystems and inhabitants beyond the capitalist human-nature binary worldview? Design Beyond the Human is a collection of essays by international scholars and designers traversing activism, anthropology, design practice, design theory, economics, environmental humanities, ethics, history, law, philosophy, politics, science, sociology and technology. Divided into three sections - We Are Not Alone, Design Beyond the Human, and Mediating Human–Non-Human Relations Through Design - the text generates an interdisciplinary conversation capable of thinking about life on planet Earth, challenging the Anglo-European anthropocentric conceptualisation of design that dominates practice, education, and academic discourse. Each section is unique: charting the transdisciplinary cultural perspective that is required to comprehend our predicament, the critique of human-centred design and its interdependence with capitalism, and the nascent design practices and projects that are attempting to reconcile humanity's possible relationship with the planet, its ecosystems and inhabitants. | ||||
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Output Type: | Edited Book | ||||
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Transdisciplinary, Design Beyond the Human, Planetary Conversations | ||||
Schools and Departments: | Innovation School | ||||
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Status: | In Press | ||||
Output ID: | 7975 | ||||
Deposited By: | Elio Caccavale | ||||
Deposited On: | 24 Mar 2022 17:51 | ||||
Last Modified: | 27 Jun 2023 09:48 |