Thesis
Designing with care for more-than-human worlds
Master of Science (M.S.), Drexel University
Jan 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00000937
Abstract
This project builds on calls to decenter the human in design (Forlano, 2016; DiSalvo and Lukens, 2011; Galloway, 2017; Lenskjold & Jönsson, 2018; Smith et al. 2017). It explores how critical and speculative design practices situate designers as material-semiotic storytellers (Ward & Wilkie, 2009) that use design to highlight shared concerns (DiSalvo, 2013; Andersen et al., 2015) and materially (re)configure the normative ethical frameworks shaping design agendas (Bratteteig & Wagner, 2014). It builds on discourse in participatory design and draws on theories in science, technology and society (STS) to consider what it might mean to include non-humans as participants in the design process while remaining sensitive to calls for a bioinclusive ethic (Veselova & Gaziulusoy, 2019). This theoretical framework guides the development of a speculative design project which incorporates mimosa pudica plants as part of a living interface within a speculative Internet of Things. It serves as documentation of the research through design process and the practices of growing and living with the mimosa pudicas.
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- Title
- Designing with care for more-than-human worlds
- Creators
- Greg Sieber
- Contributors
- Diana S. Nicholas (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Science (M.S.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- 63 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Architecture, Design, and Urbanism; Design Research; Drexel University; Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
- Other Identifier
- 991016456059204721