Speculative Prototypes and Alien Ethnographies: Experimenting with Relations Beyond the Human

This article concerns the role of speculative design prototypes as a means of intervening into everyday life contexts in order to explore, and possibly enable, new kinds of relations between humans and non-human beings. By addressing a human de-centring through design, the aim is to explore what ki...

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Main Authors: Tau Ulv Lenskjold, Li Jönsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2018-06-01
Series:Diseña
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Online Access:https://revistadelaconstruccion.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/article/view/85
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description This article concerns the role of speculative design prototypes as a means of intervening into everyday life contexts in order to explore, and possibly enable, new kinds of relations between humans and non-human beings. By addressing a human de-centring through design, the aim is to explore what kind of new possibilities might arise when design speculation meets a practice of doing what can be called an ‘alien ethnography’.
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spelling doaj.art-5e4a08bc6050466289a77afa24ac808c2024-03-08T21:34:17ZengPontificia Universidad Católica de ChileDiseña0718-84472452-42982018-06-0111Speculative Prototypes and Alien Ethnographies: Experimenting with Relations Beyond the HumanTau Ulv Lenskjold0Li Jönsson1University of Southern DenmarkThe Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts This article concerns the role of speculative design prototypes as a means of intervening into everyday life contexts in order to explore, and possibly enable, new kinds of relations between humans and non-human beings. By addressing a human de-centring through design, the aim is to explore what kind of new possibilities might arise when design speculation meets a practice of doing what can be called an ‘alien ethnography’. https://revistadelaconstruccion.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/article/view/85Collaborative designAlien EthnographiesSpeculative PrototypesInterspecies Relations
spellingShingle Tau Ulv Lenskjold
Li Jönsson
Speculative Prototypes and Alien Ethnographies: Experimenting with Relations Beyond the Human
Diseña
Collaborative design
Alien Ethnographies
Speculative Prototypes
Interspecies Relations
title Speculative Prototypes and Alien Ethnographies: Experimenting with Relations Beyond the Human
title_full Speculative Prototypes and Alien Ethnographies: Experimenting with Relations Beyond the Human
title_fullStr Speculative Prototypes and Alien Ethnographies: Experimenting with Relations Beyond the Human
title_full_unstemmed Speculative Prototypes and Alien Ethnographies: Experimenting with Relations Beyond the Human
title_short Speculative Prototypes and Alien Ethnographies: Experimenting with Relations Beyond the Human
title_sort speculative prototypes and alien ethnographies experimenting with relations beyond the human
topic Collaborative design
Alien Ethnographies
Speculative Prototypes
Interspecies Relations
url https://revistadelaconstruccion.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/article/view/85
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