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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
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Rabies elimination research: juxtaposing optimism, pragmatism and realism [PDF]
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
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Plants as Designers of Better Futures
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
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Reclaiming human machine nature [PDF]
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
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
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Dispatches on Humanity from a Disabled Cyborg
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
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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
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Expanding the Galaxy. Designing More-than-Human Futures
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 ...
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Returning ecological wealth to nonhuman species through design: the case for ecosystemas
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
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Overcrowded Ecologies: Designing Value through More-than-Human Factors
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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