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More-Than-Human Perspective in Indigenous Cultures: Holistic Systems Informing Computational Models in Architecture, Urban and Landscape Design towards the Post-Anthropocene Epoch

open access: yesBuildings, 2023
By studying Aboriginal maps, this speculative research discusses world heritage concepts about land and merges them into western urban contexts. Assumptions concerning spatial allocation and demarcation such as boundaries, divisions and geometric ...
Yannis Zavoleas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rabies elimination research: juxtaposing optimism, pragmatism and realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
More than 100 years of research has now been conducted into the prevention, control and elimination of rabies with safe and highly efficacious vaccines developed for use in human and animal populations. Domestic dogs are a major reservoir for rabies, and
Bögel K   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Plants as Designers of Better Futures

open access: yesPlant Perspectives
This research explores the idea of plants as designers and discusses approaches that humans can use to support plant’s productive agencies. It argues that plants have unique and valuable capabilities for creating and caring for their environments.
Julian Rutten   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reclaiming human machine nature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Extending and modifying his domain of life by artifact production is one of the main characteristics of humankind. From the first hominid, who used a wood stick or a stone for extending his upper limbs and augmenting his gesture strength, to current ...
C. Chopin   +6 more
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Inclusion as Agencies in Friction

open access: yesDiseña
Inclusivity is a contemporary social discourse that calls for practices enabling equal, just, or fair access to resources and opportunities. Designers and researchers are increasingly requested and pressured to take an active role as agents of inclusion.
Isaac Arturo Ortega Alvarado   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dispatches on Humanity from a Disabled Cyborg

open access: yesDIID, 2022
This essay engages with the more than human from the perspective of the disabled cyborg in order to explore themes around human-machine relations and pluriversal design in the context of hundreds of years of dehumanization.
Laura Forlano
doaj   +1 more source

A Multispecies Design Approach in the Eure valley. Three Lessons from a Design Studio in Landscape Architecture

open access: yesLes Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale, Urbaine et Paysagère, 2022
The current state of our planet gives rise to a range of new perspectives in the environmental humanities that take “multispecies” viewpoints into account.
Björn Bracke   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Expanding the Galaxy. Designing More-than-Human Futures

open access: yesDIID, 2022
When we talk about design, we might define it as anticipating, imagining, defining the future, yet it might also be an act of transforming, or considering the possibility of various orders of transformation. This process can be described, borrowing Buckminster Fuller’s point of view, as a preestablished sequence of activities/events characterized by a ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Returning ecological wealth to nonhuman species through design: the case for ecosystemas

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2022
Human population and energy use have increased rapidly in recent centuries. This growth has relied on Homo sapiens appropriating ecosystem services previously shared more equitably with many other species.
Bill Tomlinson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overcrowded Ecologies: Designing Value through More-than-Human Factors

open access: yesAHFE International, 2022
With artificial intelligence being tirelessly trained and constantly learning about subjects and objects inhabiting given environments, whole new ecosystems have been rising and developing, where beings and things are equally entangled in boundaries, connections and relationships, capable of enacting their own agencies at any time.In fact, since ...
Elisabetta Cianfanelli   +2 more
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