ATTENTIVE AND APPRECIATIVE: DESIGNERS CONNECTING WITH MORE-THAN-HUMAN BEINGS

Louise St. Pierre, Emily Carr University; Caro McCaw, Otago Polytechnic INTRODUCTION This essay considers a design student project that practised methods and languages for connecting designers with the more-than-human. The term refers to ecologist David Abram’s phrase “the more-than-human world” as a way of considering our entanglement with earthly nature.1 Alongside ecological thinking, we drew … Continue reading ATTENTIVE AND APPRECIATIVE: DESIGNERS CONNECTING WITH MORE-THAN-HUMAN BEINGS