*STSItalia Conference 2023 | Bologna, 28-30 June 2023*

Panel 49
*More than human decentered design: which competences, which methods, which
tools for interesting worlds to come? *
https://eventi.unibo.it/stsitalia2023/panel-49
Organizers: Micol Rispoli (1,2); Gianluca Burgio (3); Alvise Mattozzi (1);
Ramon Ernesto Rispoli (4)
1: Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 2: BAU, Centre Universitari d'Arts i
Disseny; 3: Università degli Studi di Enna "Kore"; 4: Università degli
Studi di Napoli Federico II

*Topics: *Ecological transitions and climate justice; Knowledge
co-creation, citizens science, co-design processes, material publics and
grassroot innovation; Methodological challenges in a more-than-human world;
Everyday life and design of the mundane; Building alliances in public
participation and engagement

*Keywords: *cosmopolitical design, more than human design, inventive
methods, pedagogy, design anthropology

Since few years, an intense and systematic dialogue between design
disciplines and social sciences has thrived. Such dialogue has happened, on
the one hand, when design research has started to get interested in social
science methodologies and, in particular, in the ethnographic method, and,
on the other, when social sciences have started to get interested in the
social role of artifacts in a systematic way, especially thanks to STS.
Such dialogue has never been limited to a simple exchange between two
disciplinary fields, where one took simply something from the other. In
many cases such dialogue has contributed to transform both design and
social sciences and to give way to various experimental practices, which
have had an influence also on pedagogy.

More recently many STS scholars, designers and design researchers felt the
necessity to further expand the notion of sociality, in order to include
other beings besides artifacts, as a way to address present and future
challanges and interest future worlds to come. As the general theme of the
conference indeed say, today, the multiple eco-social crises we are
experiencing highlight the fact that co-existance is not just a human
issue, but rather something that engages all the beings (living ones or not
living ones) that take part to the biosphere ecosystems.

Any design project cannot but be conceived interdipendently participative:
it is an activity of negotiations among multiple and heterogenous beings
with differe agencies. Because of that, design, emerged along the unfolding
of modernity and its late and slow fading as designed itself around the
human or, better, around various specific figures of the human,need to be
redesigned: the very notion of project, its background and its modalities
need to be redesigned.

Today some designers (architects, engineers,
product-interaction-graphic-service-social-younameit designers) are trying
to engage in this challange, often starting from the pedagogical field.
This panel intends to provide a stage, a place for reflection and
discussion and a laboratory for further investigation and exploration of
more-than-human design reflections, researches, projects, interventions and
experimentations.

We invite papers, prototype presentations and performances, enaging,
reflecting and discussing the following issues (among others)

-        interspecies co-design;

-        experiments in design and architecture pedagogy, addressing the
more-than-human challenge;

-        what competences and kinds of knowledge more-than-human designers
need

-        co-designing with neglected actors;

-        dismantling modernity, embracing complexity in design;

-        architectures of care in times of crisis;

-        design anthropology and its reframing through inventive methods to
investigate more-than-human worlds.

In order to submit an abstract please have a look at the Call for Abstracts
<https://eventi.unibo.it/stsitalia2023/call-for-abstracts> and create an
account on the conference platform https://www.conftool.org/stsitalia2023 ,
then submit your contribution to the correct panel after account creation.

Alvise Mattozzi


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