Designing for Interdependence: A Poetics of Relating

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Martín Ávila (Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden) Clive Dilnot (Parsons the New School for Design New York USA)

Designing for Interdependence

A Poetics of Relating

Martín Ávila (Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden), Clive Dilnot (Parsons the New School for Design New York USA), Eduardo Staszowski (Parsons School of Design USA)

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
17 November 2022

History of Art & Design Styles; Environmentally-friendly architecture & design

Series: Designing in Dark Times

Challenging the dominant design paradigm that centres humanity in its practice, Designing for Interdependence puts forward an ecocentric mode of designing that privileges a harmonious relationship between all life forms that share our planet. This book is about the practice of designing and design’s capacity to relate (or not) to beings of all kinds, human and others, in ways that are life-affirming.

Sensitive to power differentials and the responsibility that this entails, Martín Ávila develops the notion of alter-natives, a concept that exposes the alterity of artificial things and the potential of these things to participate in the sustainment of natural environments. He proposes a design practice that encompasses humans, artificial things and other-than-human species in a 'poetics of relating', and provides methods that support the rewilding necessary for maintaining cultural and biological diversity and the stabilization of planetary dynamics. The book features real-life project case studies that illustrate some of the political-ecological implications of an ecocentric paradigm, which can help us to imagine alternative modes of relating to local environments and alternative modes of inter-species cohabitation.

Avoiding dualistic thinking and the dichotomies harmful-benefit, construction-destruction, natural-artificial and life-death, Ávila pursues the work of caring for how our mattering through design can become constructive in creating more-than-human ecologies.

By: Martín Ávila (Konstfack University of Arts Crafts and Design Sweden)
Edited by: Clive Dilnot (Parsons the New School for Design New York USA), Eduardo Staszowski (Parsons School of Design USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350183742
ISBN 10: 1350183741
Series: Designing in Dark Times
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 17 November 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Martín Ávila is a designer, researcher, and Professor of Design at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden. Martín’s postdoctoral project Symbiotic Tactics (2013-2016) was the first of its kind to be financed by the Swedish Research Council. His research is design-driven and addresses forms of interspecies cohabitation.

Reviews for Designing for Interdependence: A Poetics of Relating

The book's greatest strength is its insistence that more-than human beings be taken seriously as co-habitants of human habitations. But instead of simply making the case for his thesis in words, the author has practiced and built experiments in creating interspecies co-habitations. In this original book, Avila does not romanticize or demonize interspecies relations, but treats them with the nuance they deserve, giving due respect to the complexities of our relations, our attractions, our revulsions. -- Kriti Sharma, California Institute of Technology, USA