Designing Temporal Ecologies
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-52229-9 (ISBN)
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Bringing together a collection of methodological and practical studies, this volume explores how design can redefine notions of ecological time. It provides a new framework for environmental design practice that departs from a critique of the separation between human and other-than-human times, moving towards entangled multispecies temporalities.
In Western industrialised societies, the times of humans and of the natural world are often considered as belonging to different realms. While human life is regarded as progressive and accelerated, other species are described as following timescales that are cyclical and slow-changing. Highlighting the problematic nature of this conceptual division, which reinforces the disruptive impact of anthropogenic action, a team of design scholars and practitioners identify new ways of approaching more-than-human times, suggesting more sustainable ways of designing and living in the world. They examine a range of more-than-human relationships, weaving together case studies on gardens, rivers, wetlands, and indigenous and contested lands, which span across different geographical contexts including Scotland, the Netherlands, Finland, Palestine and Brazil.
Through a design-led approach, this volume draws attention to the plurality of times in the world and makes the case for an ethical and political agenda that calls us to (re)design times and challenge temporal power inequalities. It reframes the ways we think about, experience, imagine and interfere in more-than-human times so that design can ultimately be more aligned with planetary processes, co-exist with more diverse ecologies and find its way into more sustainable futures.
Larissa Pschetz is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Design Informatics at University of Edinburgh, UK.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction to Designing Temporal Ecologies, Larissa Pschetz (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Part 1: Relating to more-than-human times
1. Encountering more-than-human time: Expanding temporal perspectives through walking and fabulating with my grandfather’s herbarium , Doenja Oogjes (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)
2. Reframing the colours of the season: Counteracting temporal insensitivity through incorporation of local ecologies of textile dyeing, Anton Poikolainen Rosén (Stockholm University, Denmark) and Leonardo Hidalgo Uribe (Aalto University, Finland)
3. Expanding more-than-human care time: Rivers as teachers and carriers , Ann Light (University of Sussex, UK), Rachel Clarke (London School of Communication, UK) and Sara Heitlinger (City University of London, UK)
4. Dúthchas in soaking ecologies: Making home temporally in the Outer Hebrides, Deepta Sateesh (Srishti Manipal Institute of Art and Design, India)
5. Foregrounding multiple temporalities through sketching and fabulating: Reimagining the Tagus riverfront, Marta Ferreira and Valentina Nisi (ITI-LARSyS, I.S.Técnico, U. Lisboa)
Part 2: Reconciling conflicting temporalities
1. Designing within dischronotopic land-based ecologies: Drinking camomile in Palestine, Rachel Clarke (London School of Communication, UK)
2. Weaving times: Reconciling temporalities through the creation of an Indigenous art catalogue , Julia Sá Earp (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Maria José Villares Barral Villas Boas (National Center for Folklore and Popular Culture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Clara Meliande (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
3. Caring for the land: Where coexistent, intersecting temporalities meet, Gizem Oktay, (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)
4. Exploring the multiple temporal modes of data visceralisation: Emotional charts for situated beings, Rodolfo Almeida and Doris Kosminsky (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Part 3: Rethinking mediation of more-than-human times
1. Experimenting among more-than-human temporalities: Surrendering to garden bee ecology, Yuta Ikeya (Chitose Laboratory Coorporation, Japan) and Bahareh Barati (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)
2. Navigating temporal dialogues through material ecologies: From ocean plastics to microbial architecture, Katharina Vones and Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa (Royal College of Art, UK)
3. Orchestrating temporal ecologies of decay: Collaboratively fabricating with biodegradation, Fiona Bell (University of Maryland, US) and Leah Buechley (University of New Mexico, US)
4. Mapping more-than-human temporal provenance: Ghost temporalities in biodesign, Yuning Chen and Larissa Pschetz (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Closing words: A new temporal framework for more-than-human worlds, Larissa Pschetz (University of Edinburgh, UK)
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| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.7.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 72 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Architektur |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-52229-5 / 1350522295 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-52229-9 / 9781350522299 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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