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PAPERS: Design and More-than-Human Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Zoom Link Session Chair: Laura Popplow, Köln International School of Design | |
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Shifting from Creativity to Sympoiesis: A Site-Oriented Design Inquiry of More-than-Human Creative AI 1: Division of Media Technology and Interaction Design, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; 2: School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University, Canada Creative AI technology (AI used in creative practices) is predominantly designed through human-centered approaches, and more specifically human-centered framing of creativity. Drawing on More-than-Human (MTH) design, in this paper, we argue for the need to shift from designing for human-centered creativity to designing for sympoietic making-with within situated ecologies, when it comes to creativity technology. We approach this through a relational, site-oriented design research inquiry that starts with a multispecies ethnography in a local ecology. Through this, we develop insights of more-than-human co-creation processes within the environmental ecology and bring these insights to a materialized form in speculative designs to examine them further. Subsequently, we examine the speculations through the critiques of human-centered conceptualization of creativity, providing an analytical tool for examining human-centered vs. more-than-human-centered notions of creativity in the design processes of creativity technology. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1902
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