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Designing with the more-than-human: Temporalities of thinking with care

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Bahareh Barati,

Larissa Pschetz,

Carolina Ramirez-FigueroaAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '23 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3563703.3591462

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This one-day workshop brings together HCI researchers, designers, and practitioners to engage with more-than-human temporalities in the context of designing with care. We invite participants to experiment and think with more-than-human time experiences as a starting point to integrate emergent methodologies and practices for more-than-human discourses in design. By using living and once-living media (e.g., fungi, plant and insect specimens, biodesigned artefacts) as starting points for investigating more-than-human temporalities, participants will discuss how a pluralistic temporal approach can offer to the discourse of designing-with nonhuman entities, and how this aligns with emerging HCI research trajectories and concerns.

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Index Terms

Designing with the more-than-human: Temporalities of thinking with care
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI theory, concepts and models
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods

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