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An Emerging Posthumanist Design Landscape
University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Malmö University, Sweden.
Konstfack University of Arts Crafts and Design, Sweden;KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Malmö University, Sweden.
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2022 (English)In: Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, p. 469-491Chapter in book (Other academic)
Sustainable development
SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts by regulating emissions and promoting developments in renewable energy, SDG 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Abstract [en]

A designer is somebody who points, who designates, and gives directions. Design thereby has a direction into the future. What directions are designers pointing out if design is coupled with posthumanism? Posthumanism has come into being in a landscape of both ideas and design. That which has previously been designed and produced is coming back and it can help us point out harmful inequalities if we sharpen our observational tools and concepts. “An Emerging Posthumanist Design Landscape” is an overflowing designated area for examples and thinking on compositions of design and critical posthumanism. It is a landscape in the making, yet scarred by previous design cultures and histories. As design researchers operating out of Scandinavian academia, we invite readers/travelers to meander through an emerging hybrid landscape and to make a few selected stops at the sites of our own recent design interventions. We articulate concepts, frictions, and opportunities sprouted in a sprawling and increasingly populated landscape of design and posthumanism. Posthumanist thinking questions and recharges fundamental design concepts and methods/approaches, e.g.: Who are the actors of posthumanist design? Where does it take place? What do we design? What materials do we use? How do we work? When does design take place? Why are compositions of design and critical posthumanism important undertakings? The responses to these questions sketch trajectories for further travels and the co-creation of an emerging posthumanist design landscape.

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Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. p. 469-491
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-118096DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04958-3_42Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85153996147ISBN: 9783031049576 (print)ISBN: 9783031049583 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-118096DiVA, id: diva2:1722736
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Earlier versions of the chapter was published with DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-42681-1_42-1 and 10.1007/978-3-030-42681-1_42-2

Available from: 2022-12-30 Created: 2022-12-30 Last updated: 2024-07-03Bibliographically approved

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