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PAPERS: Temporalities of More-than-Human Design Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Session Chair: Larissa Pschetz, The University of Edinburgh Session Chair: Gizem Oktay, Eindhoven University of Technology | |
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In vegetal terms: Temporal lenses in human-plant interaction 1: School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia This paper highlights temporality as an important more-than-human design strategy and expands multiple lenses for engaging with the temporal complexity of more-than-human. Reflecting on the dominance of anthropocentric and industrial notions of time in design, we choose plant as a paradigmatic case for otherly temporality. We take stock from interdisciplinary literatures and introduce six temporal lenses: rhythm, horizon, continuity, duration, genealogy, and incompleteness, to articulate how plants live, change, and relate through multiple overlapping temporalities. Connecting these lenses to human-plant interaction design practice, these temporal lenses enables designers to recognize temporal frictions, attend to vegetal rhythms, and cultivate responsive and situated design practices. The lenses serve as a conceptual framework for engaging with plants and other more-than-human temporalities in design processes. Ultimately, this study positions temporality as a key strategy for decentering the human in design and reimagining design as cohabitation and becoming. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1325
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