1st Edition
Design and Nature A Partnership
Organised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world.
Presented as an edited collection of 25 wide-ranging short chapters, the book explores the possibility of new relations between design and nature, beyond human mastery and understandings of nature as resource and by calling into question the longstanding role for design as agent of capitalism. The book puts forward ways in which design can form partnerships with living species and examines designers’ capacities for direct experience, awe, integrated relationships and new ways of knowing. It covers:
• New design ethics of care
• Indigenous perspectives
• Prototyping with nature
• Methods for new design and nature relations
• A history of design and nature
• Animist beliefs
• De-centering human-centered design
• Understanding nature has power and agency
Design and Nature: A Partnership is a rich resource for designers who wish to learn to engage with sustainability from the ground up.
Intro
SECTION I: Lying: Lying down to receive
A Shift of Attention Louise St. Pierre
"Towards…. Something More Liveable" A Moth Journey. Katherine Pogson
An Unexpected Rapport: Mushrooms, a Designer + Everyone Else Avery Shaw
Sitting in Trees Marcus Dénommé
Co-creating with a Tick Eugenia Bertulis
SECTION II: Sitting: Sitting to open dialogue
Hybrids. Others/Selfies Li Jönsson, Tau Ulv Lenskjold Poem: ‘Zoology’ by Neil Bennun
Narrating the Impression. Paola Sturla
Thick Description Through Visualisations – Towards New Representations of Nature Jana Thierfelder
Learning from Harakeke — Towards a Network for Textile Design in Aotearoa New Zealand Faith Kane, Huhana Smith, Rangi Te Kanawa and Tanya Maree Ruka Te Miringa Te Rorarangi and Angela Kilford
Becoming-with Vegetal: Sympoietic Design Practice with Plant Partners Raune Frankjaer
To Name is to Value Anette Lundebye
Design and Nature: A History Louise St Pierre
Part one: Foundation
Part two: Ecological Design as Mastery
Part three: Bio this...and Bio that
Part four: Moving Forward
SECTION III: Standing: Standing to achieve a view
Short-comings and Vulner-abilities Markus Wernli
Living Landfill Katarina Dimitrijevic
Design and Nature as Seen through Fur: Systems of Manipulation and Care Else Skjold, Frederik Larsen
Bully Goes Fishing Erik Sandelin
Dirty design (or A bloody mess) - In celebration of life affirming design Mathilda Tham
SECTION IV: Walking: Walking to move
Earthbond Prototyping, a Method for Designers to Deepen Connections to Nature Zach Camozzi
Design Students in Sustainable Systems Timo Rissanen & Laura Sansone
Design on the Wing: Collaborative Work with Nature Cameron Cartiere & Nancy Holmes
We Become Gardeners After All. Clara Vankerschaver
A Nourishing Dialogue with the Material Environment Maarit Mäkelä
The Poetics of Cultural Landscapes through Ecological Wisdom Alyssa Schwann
Antarctica SE3: a Conversation on Designing with Care Sarah Pennington & Eleanor Margolies
Folding In Kate Fletcher
Conclusion
Biography
Kate Fletcher is a Professor at the Centre of Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK, where she explores design for sustainability.
Louise St. Pierre is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University, Canada, where she researches sustainability, contemplative practice and design’s relationship with nature.
Mathilda Tham’s work sits in a creative, feminist, activist space between design, futures studies and sustainability. She is Professor of Design, Linnaeus University, Sweden.
