Bringing together a collection of methodological and practical studies, this volume explores how design could define more equal 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 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.
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- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction to Designing Temporal Ecologies
- Part One Relating to More-than-Human Times
- 2 Encountering More-than-Human Time: Expanding Temporal Perspectives through Walking and Fabulating with my Grandfather’s Herbarium
- 3 Reframing the Colours of the Season: Counteracting Temporal Insensitivity through Incorporation of Local Ecologies of Textile Dyeing
- 4 Expanding More-than-Human Care Time: Rivers as Teachers and Carriers
- 5 Dúthchas in Soaking Ecologies: Making Home Temporally in the Outer Hebrides
- 6 Foregrounding Multiple Temporalities through Sketching and Fabulating: Reimagining the Tagus Riverfront
- Part Two Reconciling Conflicting Temporalities
- 7 Designing within Dischronotopic Land-Based Ecologies: Drinking Camomile in Palestine
- 8 Weaving Times: Reconciling Temporalities through the Creation of an Indigenous Art Catalogue
- 9 Caring for the Land: Where Coexistent, Intersecting Temporalities Meet
- 10 Exploring the Multiple Temporal Modes of Data Visceralization: Emotional Charts for Situated Beings
- Part Three Rethinking Mediation of More-than-Human Times
- 11 Experimenting among More-than-Human Temporalities: Surrendering to Garden Bee Ecology
- 12 Navigating Temporal Dialogues through Material Ecologies: From Ocean Plastics to Microbial Architecture
- 13 Orchestrating Temporal Ecologies of Decay: Collaboratively Fabricating with Biodegradation and Regeneration
- 14 Mapping More-than-Human Temporal Provenance: Ghost Temporalities in Biodesign
- Closing Words
- 15 A New Temporal Framework for More-than-Human Worlds
- Index
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