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Designing More-than-Human Climate Futures: Affect, Aesthetics and Relational Practices

Clarke, R., Westerlaken, M., Heitlinger, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-6148-350X , Poikolainen Rosén, A. & Choi, J. (2026). Designing More-than-Human Climate Futures: Affect, Aesthetics and Relational Practices. In: Proceedings of DRS. Design Research Society, 8–12 Jun 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland. doi: 10.21606/drs.2026.188

Abstract

This track brings together papers that explore more-than-human design practices that generate alternative, plural, situated, and relational approaches to climate futures through affect, aesthetics, and care. Framing climate crisis as a polycrisis of interconnected ecological, political, cultural, and epistemic conditions, the track foregrounds how designers are working across contradictory, incommensurable, and unevenly recognised and experienced impacts of climate change. The included papers examine how more-than-human design can attend to embodied, felt, and sensed worlds of multiple species and digital-material entities, infrastructures, and their environments. Across landscapes, waterscapes, governance, microbial growth, and multiple intelligences, the contributions reveal both the possibilities and frictions of designing as a critical transdisciplinary practice towards more equitable, regenerative, and care-full climate futures under conditions of polycrisis.

Publication Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Publisher Keywords: emotion; transdisciplinary; regeneration; care; polycrisis; multi-scalar
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
Departments: School of Science & Technology
School of Science & Technology > Department of Computer Science
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