Description
Book SynopsisOrganised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world.
Presented as an edited collection of 25 wide-ranging short chapters, the book explores the possibility of new relations between design and nature, beyond human mastery and understandings of nature as resource and by calling into question the longstanding role for design as agent of capitalism. The book puts forward ways in which design can form partnerships with living species and examines designers' capacities for direct experience, awe, integrated relationships and new ways of knowing. It covers:
New design ethics of care
Indigenous perspectives
Prototyping with nature
Methods for new design and nature relations
A history of design and nature
Animist beliefs
De-centering human-centered design
Understanding nature has power and agency
Table of ContentsIntro SECTION I: Lying: Lying down to receive A Shift of Attention "Towards…. Something More Liveable" A Moth Journey. An Unexpected Rapport: Mushrooms, a Designer + Everyone Else Sitting in Trees Co-creating with a Tick SECTION II: Sitting: Sitting to open dialogue Hybrids. Others/Selfies Poem: ‘Zoology’ Narrating the Impression. Thick Description Through Visualisations – Towards New Representations of Nature Learning from Harakeke — Towards a Network for Textile Design in Aotearoa New Zealand Becoming-with Vegetal: Sympoietic Design Practice with Plant Partners To Name is to Value Design and Nature: A History Part one: Foundation Part two: Ecological Design as Mastery Part three: Bio this...and Bio that Part four: Moving Forward SECTION III: Standing: Standing to achieve a view Short-comings and Vulner-abilities Living Landfill Design and Nature as Seen through Fur: Systems of Manipulation and Care Bully Goes Fishing Dirty design (or A bloody mess) - In celebration of life affirming design SECTION IV: Walking: Walking to move Earthbond Prototyping, a Method for Designers to Deepen Connections to Nature Design Students in Sustainable Systems Design on the Wing: Collaborative Work with Nature We Become Gardeners After All. A Nourishing Dialogue with the Material Environment The Poetics of Cultural Landscapes through Ecological Wisdom Antarctica SE3: a Conversation on Designing with Care Folding In Conclusion
