Full Description
In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities will drive nearly one million species to extinction in a few decades. The primary reasons for this are habitat loss and biodiversity demise caused by changing climate, pollution, introducing nonindigenous species, clearing land, over population, and consumption. Given this situation, humans must change course as both human wellbeing and the wellbeing of other-than-human species are imbricated in one another. One way humanity can accomplish the needed transformation is to move beyond an anthropocentric view of life by embracing a transpecies approach that is premised upon interconnected flourishing.
Transpecies design, as outlined in this book, offers a new approach to regenerating the natural environment while honoring biodiversity. Rather than presenting the human experience as the goal of design, transpecies design takes the inextricable linkages connecting living things as both its starting point and end goal. As such, it moves beyond human experience serving as the fundamental ingredient for making better design processes and decisions.
This book is essential reading for artists, designers, and architects, as well as students of architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, art, product design, urban design, planning, environmental philosophy, and cultural studies.
Contents
Section I: Co-Habitation 1. How Does Ecological Science Support Transpecies Design? 2. Interspecies, Multispecies, or Transpecies Design? What's the Difference? 3. Transpecies Design and Biomimicry 4. Design Against Extinction: Multispecies Methods and Engineered Living Materials 5. Garden City to City in Nature: A Case for the Cohabitation of Tidal Ecologies along Singapore's Urban Waterfront 6. Floating-With: Buoyant Ecologies of Collaboration and Solidarity 7. Unbecoming Human: Patricia Picinini's Bioart and Postanthropocentric Posthumanism 8. Salt Formations Section II: Co-Creation 9. Origin and Evolution of Biodiversity: A Story of Life on Earth 10. Adrian Parr Zaretsky in Conversation With Janet Laurence 11. Birdsong and the Transpecies Aesthetic 12. Entangled Intelligences: Transpecies Dialogues of Art 13. Designing with Non-Humans: Ralph Ghoche in Conversation With Joyce Hwang 14. The Problem Is the Burning House 15. Everything With Wings 16. Adrian Parr Zaretsky in Conversation With Carla Bengtson 17. Piñon Passage
