Event overview
A book launch and masterclass to celebrate the publishing of the edited collection 'Design For More-Than-Human Futures: Towards Post-Anthropocentric Worlding'
The Design Societies Research Unit is hosting the book launch of the edited collection Design For More-Than-Human Futures: Towards Post-Anthropocentric Worlding, published by Routledge. The launch includes a masterclass in post-anthropocentric design and features designers and scholars involved in rethinking design as a practice focused on more-than-human coexistence.
Design for More-Than-Human-Futures explores the work of important authors in the search for a transition towards more ethical design focused on more-than-human coexistence. In a time of environmental crises in which the human species threatens its own survival and the highest level of exacerbation of the idea of a future and technological innovation, it is important to discard certain anthropocentric categories in order to situate design beyond the role that it traditionally held in the capitalist world, creating opportunities to create more just and sustainable worlds. This book is an invitation to travel new paths for design framed by ethics of more-than-human coexistence that breaks with the unsustainability installed in the designs that outfit our lives. Questioning the notion of human-centered design is central to this discussion. It is not only a theoretical and methodological concern, but an ethical need to critically rethink the modern, colonialist, and anthropocentric inheritance that resonates in design culture. The authors in this book explore the ideas oriented to form new relations with the more-than-human and with the planet, using design as a form of political enquiry
Following the masterclass, a roundtable discussion with the book’s editors and contributors will take place, engaging with the themes of the book and the challenges posed to design by the more-than-human. The book launch will close with a reception with wine provided by the Embassy of Chile in London.
The schedule of the event is as follows:
15:00 Introduction: Towards pluriversal design
15:15 Masterclasses: In post-anthropocentric design
17:15 Roundtable discussion with editors & contributors
19:00 Chilean wine reception
The book launch and masterclass features Nerea Calvillo, Marcos Chilet, Nicole Cristi, Liam Healy, Pablo Hermansen, Tobie Kerridge, Noortje Marres, Sarah Pennington, Martín Tironi, Carola Ureta Marín and Alex Wilkie.
The event is supported by the Embassy of Chile in London and Routledge.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2023 | 3:00pm - 8:00pm |
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