I will shamelessly self promote to suggest my own dissertation
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/40z5g3sz
Or the shorter more to-the-point argument that took the form of a 2016 DIS
paper:
http://artfordorks.com/pubs/16_DIS_PostAnthroMaking.pdf
I also enjoyed this piece:
DiSalvo, Carl, and Jonathan Lukens. “Nonanthropocentrism and the Nonhuman
in Design: Possibilities for Designing New Forms of Engagement With and
Through Technology.” From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen. Eds. Marcus
Foth, Laura Forlano, Christine Satchell, and Martin Gibbs. Cambridge: MIT
Press. 2012, 421-435.
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 6:25 PM Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Der Ken and all,
>
> Ken wrote,
>
> "Nearly all the references and notes posted to this list seem to be drawn
> from the design literature. That would be fine if all we want to do is to
> make human-centred statements about what we — as human beings — intend to
> design with respect to the non-human world. While there is no way to escape
> the fact of our human limits, there is nevertheless a rich literature
> written by people who attend to the non-human world. I was startled to see
> few references to that literature. "
>
> There are some subtle aspects of this current fashion in thinking about
> non-anthropocentric design that link it to many existing aspects of other
> design literatures. Many examples of non-anthropocentric design thinking
> and practices are available in both technical design fields and in fields
> of design other than either art and design and technical design..
>
> One example is the 'becoming of an object in order to design it'. This
> was an aspect of Synectics, a major and successful group of design methods
> taught by George Prince and William Gordon in the 1950s that supported
> design before the development of finite element modelling and similar
> predictive mathematical modelling approaches were developed. In essence, if
> one was trying to conduct design with a non-anthropocentric focus (say)
> designing the shape of an automobile piston (which is problematic because
> it changes shape when hot and hence is not manufactured cylindrical); what
> one might do is to spend time meditatively 'becoming' the object (the
> piston) in all its 'experiences' and 'changes' in order to know
> non-anthropologically what a piston is and does and how it is best designed.
>
> Second, when researching design in complex engineering design projects, it
> is clear that it is only at the topmost levels that design activities are
> focused on the relationship and purpose of the overall design to human use
> (i.e the anthropological design issues). The majority of the design
> activity in engineering design in all its fields is non-anthropocentric in
> that it concerns the design of objects whose purposes and contexts are
> non-anthropocentric - whether these comprise the worlds of other objects or
> non-anthropocentric natural systems. In essence, the majority of
> engineering and other technical design is in the design of the non-human
> world. A good example to tease out the non-anthropocentric aspects of such
> design activities and design theories is the geo-engineering of climate.
>
> A third example (there are many others) is the design work and
> literature of people like my good friend Leif Cocks who as President of the
> Orangutan project designs for the world of orangutans. In doing this, the
> top level design focus of Leif and his colleagues is for the interests of
> the orangutans themselves rather than human interests. For more info and to
> contact Leif go to https://www.orangutan.org.au.
>
> A challenge in the PhD design research world is to create a bridge
> between the existing and long-standing large body of literature associated
> with non-anthropocentric design activities and the emerging ideas about
> non-anthropocentric design from new design fields.
>
> Best regards,
> Terence
> ==
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> School of Design and Built Environment, Curtin University, Western
> Australia
> CEO, Design Out Crime and CPTED Centre
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