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Martín Ávila is a designer, researcher, and Professor of Design at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden. Martín's postdoctoral project Symbiotic Tactics (2013-2016) was the first of its kind to be financed by the Swedish Research Council. His research is design-driven and addresses forms of interspecies cohabitation.

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The book’s greatest strength is its insistence that more-than human beings be taken seriously as co-habitants of human habitations. But instead of simply making the case for his thesis in words, the author has practiced and built experiments in creating interspecies co-habitations. In this original book, Ávila does not romanticize or demonize interspecies relations, but treats them with the nuance they deserve, giving due respect to the complexities of our relations, our attractions, our revulsions. -- Kriti Sharma, California Institute of Technology, USA

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List of Figures Foreword, Andreas Weber (Bard College Berlin, Germany) Acknowledgements Introduction: Bio-centric? 1. Poetics of Relating 2. Responding 3. Alter-natives 4. (De)signing Alter-natives As a Mode of Closing: Encounters Bibliography Index

Designing for Interdependence

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
      Published 20 October 2022
      ISBN-13 9781350337381
      978-1350337381
      ISBN-10 1350337382
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      History of art Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Sustainability

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Martín Ávila is a designer, researcher, and Professor of Design at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden. Martín's postdoctoral project Symbiotic Tactics (2013-2016) was the first of its kind to be financed by the Swedish Research Council. His research is design-driven and addresses forms of interspecies cohabitation.

      Trade Review
      The book’s greatest strength is its insistence that more-than human beings be taken seriously as co-habitants of human habitations. But instead of simply making the case for his thesis in words, the author has practiced and built experiments in creating interspecies co-habitations. In this original book, Ávila does not romanticize or demonize interspecies relations, but treats them with the nuance they deserve, giving due respect to the complexities of our relations, our attractions, our revulsions. -- Kriti Sharma, California Institute of Technology, USA

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures Foreword, Andreas Weber (Bard College Berlin, Germany) Acknowledgements Introduction: Bio-centric? 1. Poetics of Relating 2. Responding 3. Alter-natives 4. (De)signing Alter-natives As a Mode of Closing: Encounters Bibliography Index

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