This book brings together a new generation of designers, architects and artists exploring how to reorient their practices for the flourishing of other species.
Design is deeply associated with creating a better way of life - for humans. Yet we exist alongside billions of animals, plants and other living beings. Always putting human needs first has had devastating consequences on landscapes, other species and the climate. What if we fundamentally shifted our perspective? More-than-human design begins by acknowledging our entanglement with the ecosystems that give us life. It challenges us to imagine a world in which human desires no longer take precedence over the rights and needs of living systems.
This book brings together a new generation of designers, architects and artists exploring how to reorient their practices for the flourishing of other species. With contributions by renowned writers and thinkers, including Anna Tsing, Tim Ingold and Daisy Hildyard, it examines what it means to design with and for the living world.
Afterword by:
Tim Ingold
Contributions by:
Anna Tsing,
Dunne & Raby,
Daisy Hildyard
Edited by:
Justin McGuirk
Imprint: Design Museum
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 245mm,
Width: 185mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 760g
ISBN: 9781872005867
ISBN 10: 1872005861
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 14 August 2025
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword, Tim Marlow Introduction, Justin McGuirk I BEING LANDSCAPE To feel yourself a landscape, Daisy Hildyard Noticing is my way of opposing, Anna Tsing and Justin McGuirk II MAKING WITH THE WORLD The more-than-human city, James Peplow Powell Trans-species architecture, Andrés Jaque Living materials, Jia Yi Gu III SHIFTING PERSPECTIVE Inviting multispecies proposals, Michelle Westerlaken Designing when ‘spacetime is doomed’, Tony Dunne and Fiona Raby Afterword, Tim Ingold Biographies Index Picture credits Acknowledgements Imprints
